Polyporus acularius (Batsch) Fries

Saprobic; growing alone or in groups on decaying deciduous wood or attached to buried wood and appearing terrestrial[1]^{, [2]}. The specimen is collected from Amboli and Dapoli.

Morphology:

Pileus 5-25 mm diam., plane, slightly depressed at the disc, tuberculate; surface dark brown to yellowish brown; margin enter, ciliate. Hymenophore poroid, pores angular to polygonal, white becoming concolorous with the pileus. Stipe central, 5-30 × 1-4 mm, solid, stuffe, concolorous with the pileus. 1.

Culinary value:

Inedible as food

Medicinal importance:

Lack of information

Industrial importance:

Lack of information

Unique features:

Lack of information

Interesting facts:

Polyporus arcularius causes a white rot, i.e. it has a powerful set of peroxidases to decompose both cellulose and lignin in the wood[3]. 

Commercial products:

Lack of information

Review of patents:

Lack of information

Review of publications:

1. 1.Socryptoporic acids H and I were isolated from arcularius[4].
2. 2.Sequencing and characterization of genomic and cDNA clones encoding carboxymethyl cellulase gene (cel3A) was carried out from arcularius[5].

Links to more research articles:

1. 1.http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/np960220j
2. 2.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0007153657800072
3. 3.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0007153679800832
4. 4.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/297752691_Recombinant_Tyrosinase_from_Polyporus_arcularius_Overproduction_in_Escherichia_coli_Characterization_and_Use_in_a_Study_of_Aurones_as_Tyrosinase_Effectors

Classification[6]:

Related links:

1. 1.http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/257811
2. 2.http://mushroomobserver.org/name/show_name/25719
3. 3.http://www.mycobank.org/Biolomics.aspx?Table=Mycobank&MycoBankNr_=176922
4. 4.http://www.eol.org/pages/996646/overview
5. 5.http://boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxon=Polyporus%20arcularius

[1] http://www.messiah.edu/oakes/fungi_on_wood/poroid%20fungi/species%20pages/Polyporus%20arcularius.htm

[2]  http://www.mushroomexpert.com/polyporus_arcularius.html

[3] http://genome.jgi.doe.gov/Polar1/Polar1.home.html

[4] Cabrera GM, Julia Roberti M, Wright JE, Seldes AM (2002) Cryptoporic and isocryptoporic acids from the fungal cultures of Polyporus arcularius and P. ciliatus. Phytochemistry, 61(2):189-93

[5] Ishihara H, Aimi T, Takahashi K, Kitamoto Y (2005) Heterologous expression and characterization of the endocellulase encoding gene cel3A from the basidiomycete Polyporus arcularius. Mycoscience, 46 (3): 154-161

[6] http://www.indexfungorum.org/names/NamesRecord.asp?RecordID=176922