U.S.-Venezuela Cooperative Research: Taxonomic and Life History Studies of Venezuelan Ascomycetes

这项美国-委内瑞拉奖将支持乔治亚大学的理查德·汉林教授和委内瑞拉马拉凯市委内瑞拉中央大学的奥马尔·托尔托洛教授之间的一项研究合作。本研究的目的是收集、鉴定和研究委内瑞拉的子囊菌，重点是植物病原物种。子囊菌是热带国家真菌菌群的主要组成部分。其中许多寄生在植物上，有些对重要的经济作物造成严重的病害。然而，人们对热带地区许多植物致病性子囊菌的生物学了解甚少，甚至它们的确切鉴定也常常不确定。通过将熟悉热带子囊菌引起的许多植物疾病的委内瑞拉植物病理学家的专业知识与世界领先的子囊菌研究人员之一相结合，该项目将增加我们对这一重要真菌家族的了解。

This U.S.-Venezuela award will support a research collaboration between Professor Richard Hanlin of the University of Georgia and Professor Omar Tortolero of the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Maracay, Venezuela. The purpose of the research is to collect, identify and study Venezuelan ascomycetes, with emphasis on plant pathogenic species. The ascomycetes comprise a major component of the fungal flora in tropical countries. Many of them grow parasitically on plants, and some cause serious diseases of economically important crops. Many of the plant pathogenic ascomycetes in the tropics, however, are poorly understood biologically, and even their exact identification is often uncertain. By combining the expertise of a Venezuelan plant pathologist acquainted with numerous plant diseases caused by tropical ascomycetes, with one of the world's leading ascomycetes researchers, this project will increase our understanding of this important family of fungi.