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Background

The ICTF has several Subcommissions who collaborate on the organization of workshops, conference symposia, and the development of taxonomic resources for their user communities. There are also affiliated Commissions that share a common vision for the development of cooperative fungal taxonomy, although they are not formally under the ICTF umbrella. In August 2011, dramatic changes in the rules for naming fungi were announced, and the international mycological community is mobilizing to develop a single name system for fungal species, necessitating the need to establish a number of less permanent Working Groups focused on specific groups. The ICTF and the Nomenclatural Committee for Fungi (NCF) are cooperating in coordinating the international response to the rule changes. The Subcommissions, Affiliated Commissions and Working Groups listed below are where the nomenclatural discussions will occur.

ICTF Subcommissions (see Members for all associated members)

  • International Subcommission for the Taxonomy of Phytopathogenic Fungi
    • Pedro Crous (Co-Chair), Amy Rossman (Co-Chair)

The aims of this subcommission are to define fungal names in the following initial projects: 

1) A list of common plant pathogenic fungi (this is a tentative list that we are working on, then recollect and designate epi- or neo-types for those taxa as needed)

List of plant pathogenic fungi 18 January 2021.doc

2) The genera of Fungi project, but specifically aimed at settling the names of Genera of Phytopathogenic Fungi

3) Fungi of quarantine importance (the list varies per country).

 Crous-2015-Identifying and Naming Plant-Pathog.pdf

  • International Subcommission on Colletotrichum Taxonomy
    • Lee Cai (Chair), Bevan Weir (Secretary)

 

  • International Subcommission on Fusarium Taxonomy
    • David Geiser (Chair)

This is also a subcommission of the International Society of Plant Pathology Commission on Fusarium. There are two major resources developed by this subcommission. The first is the Fusarium nomenclatural database now maintained on the website of the Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures (http://www.cbs.knaw.nl/fusarium/BioloMICS.aspx). The second is the DNA sequence database for identification maintained by the Fusarium Research Centre at Pennsylvania State University (http://plantpath.psu.edu/facilities/fusarium-research-center). This subcommission meets regularly at the Fusarium workshops associated with each International Congress of Plant Pathology.

Geiser et al. 2013 Fusarium.pdf 

  • International Subcommission on Rust Taxonomy
    • M. Catherine Aime (Chair)

Aime_et_al_2018_Puccinio_Ustilago.pdf 

Trichoderma_Mycotaxon2013.pdf

 

Affiliated IUMS Commissions 

Talaromyces_Yilmaz_et_al_SIM_2014.pdf

Aspergillus_Samson_et_al_SIM_2014.pdf

Aspergillus_reclassified_Pitt_and_Taylor2014.pdf

Aspergillus versus Eurotium, Neosartorya and Emericella.pdf


NCF/ICTF Nomenclatural Working Groups

  • Fungi Miscellaneous Working Group
    • Conrad Schoch (Co-Convenor), Tom May (Co-Convenor)
Overlooked_Ascos_Rossman_et_al_IMAFungus2016.pdf
  • Cordyceps Working Group
    • Joey Spatafora (Convenor)

Quandt_et_at_IMAF_2014.pdf 

  • Diaporthales Working Group
    • Amy Rossman (Convenor)

Diaporthales_Rossman_et_al.pdf

Rossman-One_name_Hypocreales-Diaporthales.pdf

  • Dothideomycetes Working Group
    • Pedro Crous (Co-Convenor), Kevin Hyde (Co-Convenor)

Naming_and_Outline_of_Dothideomycetes_2014.pdf

  • Erysiphales Working Group
    • Uwe Braun (Convenor)

Taxon_2013_Braun_Erysiphales.pdf

  • Heterobasidiomycetes Working Group (see also International Subcommission on Rust Taxonomy, above)
    • Dominik Bergerow (Convenor)
  • Homobasidiomycetes Working Group
    • Tom May (Co-Convenor), Scott Redhead (Co-Convenor)
Competing_sexual-asexual_names_Agaricomycotina_IMAFungus2021.pdf
  • Hypocreales Working Group
    • Amy Rossman (Co-Convenor), Priscila Chaverri (Co-Convenor)

Hypocreales_Rossman_et_al_IMAFungus2013.pdf

  • Leotiomycetes Working Group
    • Peter Johnston (Convenor)

Leotiomycetes_list_IMAFungus2013.pdf

Pezizomycetes_Healy_et_al_IMAFungus2016.pdf

  • Sordariomycetes excluding Diaporthales, Hypocreales and Magnaporthales Working Group
    • Amy Rossman (Co-Convenor), Andrew Miller (Co-Convenor)

Sordariomycetes_Reblova_et_al_IMAFungus2013.pdf

  • Medical Mycology Working Group
    • Sybren de Hoog (Convenor)

de Hoog et al. 2015. Name Changes in Medically Important Fungi and Their Implications for Clinical Practice. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 53: 1056-1062.pdf 

  • Oomycetes Working Group [not approved NCF]
    • André Lévesque (Convenor  
  • Orbiliomycetes Working Group
    • Hans-O. Baral (Convenor), XingZhong Liu (Secretary)
Orbiliaceae_list_Mycol_Progress2017.pdf
  • Pyricularia/Magnaporthe working group
    • Ning Zhang (Convenor)

Generic Names in Magnaporthales.pdf







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