Typical characteristics of selected model basidiomycetes representative of preferring different plant material/components degradation.

As an out-group, the non-wood-degrading basidiomycete species, Tremella mesenterica (mycoparasite) and Cryptococcus neoformans (animal pathogen/parasite) are also shown in the table. Phanerochaete carnosa has been exclusively isolated from softwood (10) has been represented as model basidiomycete for understanding the mechanism of softwood degradation. In comparison to Ganoderma lucidum, the model medicinal mushroom (9), Ganoderma sp. proved to have an additional 10 sub-families in its genome (12). For this reason, in this study we used Ganoderma sp. P450s as representative of Ganoderma lucidum.