Биологические науки/3. Микология и альгология

 

Doctor of biological sciences Safonov M.A.

Orenburg state pedagogical university, Russia

 

Fungi on wood of fruit trees in Southern Preurals (Russia)

 

 The important component of gardening system are the fruit cultures plantations, in the majority dated for vicinities of settlements. Such dominant fruit arbors, as apple, pear, plum, cherry, raspberry etc. occupy the significant areas in suburbs of cities. Thus these plants represents alien element of flora. In Southern Preurals the localities of indigenous labors of fruit arbors, such as apple, pear, cherry are known, but however areas occupied by them, essentially concede to the areas of synthetic stands.

In the Orenburg region the gardening has an old history and old traditions, in spite of the fact that the conditions of steppe region are not congenial for growing and development of many fruit arbors [Chybyliov & etc., 2004].

The most widespread fruit culture in Russia is the apple. The apples plantations in Russian Federation occupy about 80 % from the common area of gardens. It provides its leading role in economy of a gardening of the country [Kashin, 1995]. Thus almost 50 % of the areas of apple plantations occupy the aged and started gardens described by low productivity and unsatisfactory quality of fruits [Prykhodko & etc., 2000]. In the Orenburg region the apple also is widespread; the works on building new and acclimatization of already existing varieties are constantly conducted. At the same time, many gardeners of the Southern Preurals poorly update age and varietal composition of plantations; it is a significant apples stands in areas of the deserted settlements which are not in use, running wild and degenerate. At the same time these plantations could become a source of a valuable stuff for carrying out of selection, according to their ability to tolerate unfavorable conditions of steppe zone without creation of special measures from the side of man.

We carried out researches of a species composition of wood-destroying fungi living on growing, dry arbors and stumps of dominant fruit woody plants, to which, first of all, concern an apple, plum, cherry.

On fruit arbors in vicinities of Orenburg, in aged apple gardens in Tjulgan and Buguruslan districts of the Orenburg region 17 species of wood-destroying fungi concerning 15 genuses and 9 families were marked. The largest families are Bjerkanderaceae and Coriolaceae, which total participation in mykobiota makes 41,2 %.

The most numerous genus - Trametes, submitted by 3 kinds. The majority of marked species was revealed on twigs and dry trees; only 29,4 % of species even of time were marked on growing plants; 47,1 % of species was marked on stumps of fruit arbors.

The majority of the marked species are widespread on wood of different tree genuses in natural and anthropogenic stands of trees of region (for example, Irpex lacteus (Fr.:Fr.) Fr., Stereum subtomentosum Pouzar, Schizophyllum commune Fr.: Fr., species of Trametes). At the same time, on an old-age apple in Buguruslan district the species Ceriporia purpurea (Fr.) Donk, earlier marked in range on twigs of pine in forests of Kwarkeno distirict [Safonov, 1996] was marked. It is circumboreal species invokes white rot of foliaceous, much less often - conifers in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America [Ryvarden, Gilbertson, 1993]; the species is widespread, but everywhere low in quantity [Ryvarden, Johansen, 1980].

One more interesting species was marked on dry apples - Spongipellis spumeus (Sow.: Fr.) Pat., considered as the candidate for including in the regional Red data book [Safonov, 2003; Ryabinina, Safonov, 2007].

The greatest interest represents the species marked at the Southern Preurals only on dry old-age apples in deserted gardens - Sarcodontia crocea (Fr). Kotlaba. In Europe it meets as a biotroph on apple trees in parks and gardens [Nikolaeva, 1961; Nordic Macromycetes, 1997], occasionally on other foliaceous arbors (pear, mountain ash, ash etc.) [Doll, 1981; Larralde, 1994]. The species is widespread enough in Europe, America, however everywhere is low quantity. In several European countries the species is considered as rare [Kotiranta, Niemela, 1996].

Also to a number of species, rare for region, concerns Tyromyces fissilis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Donk. The proximate location of this species to the border of the Orenburg region is in the Kugarchinskyi district of Bashkortostan [Safonov, 2010]. This fungi lives mainly on alive trees, less often on twigs of Alnus, Betula, Corylus, Fagus, Fraxinus, Juglans, Malus, Populus, Prunus, Quercus, Salix, Sorbus, Tilia, Ulmus, very rare on conifers [Ryvarden, Gilbertson, 1994]. It is a pangolarctic species but everywhere meets incidentally [Ryvarden, Gilbertson, 1994]; in Russia meets in the European part, on Urals, in Siberia, in Central Asia [Stepanova-Kartavenko, 1967; Mukhin, 1993; Baltaeva, 1993]. In Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden a fungi considered to a number of endangered species [Rodeliste, 1998; Kotiranta, Niemela, 1996]; an rare species in Poland [Piatek, 1999].

Only one specific species marked on other fruit arbors - Phellinus tuberculosus (Baumg.) Niemela (P. pomaceus). It is widespread golarctic species more often meeting on growing cultivated fruit trees, such as plums and cherries, also marked on maples, alder, hornbeam, beerch, apple, willows and elms [Ryvarden, Gilbertson, 1994]. In the Southern Preurals it was earlier marked on Prunus spinosa in bottomland forests of Ural river [Safonov, Dubskyi, 2007].

Thus, the most part of xylotrophic fingi biota species composition of fruit cultures of researched area is typical enough for region, the banal, wide spread species dominate in it. At the same time, the presence of some fruit trees, especially apples, determines entry of the series of specific species in the in regional mykobiota, for which their wood is to some extent a substrate preferendum.

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