Trichoderma Pers.

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Trichoderma Pers. , Neues Magazin f̧r die Botanik 1: 92 (1794)

Index Fungorum number: IF 10282

Type species: Trichoderma viride Pers., Neues Magazin f̧r die Botanik 1: 92 (1794)

Notes: Trichoderma has been known since at least the 1920s for their antagonistic properties to act as biocontrol agents against plant pathogens ( Harman 2006). Recently, 495 records have been listed in the index Fungorum (2023). Trichoderma are soilborne, green-spored ascomycetes, these fungi are often isolated from forest or agricultural soils worldwide and present typical green sporulation in vitro ( Brotman et al. 2010, Zhang et al. 2022). Some strains of Trichoderma are opportunistic plant symbionts, that effectively colonize roots, and have evolved multiple mechanisms to increase plant growth and productivity ( Harman 2000, 2006). Moreover, Trichoderma is a strong mycoparasite, and shows excellent antagonistic properties to other fungi to produce antibiotics that affect other microbes ( Weindling 1934, Weindling & Fawcett 1936). Therefore, Trichoderma is an ideal biocontrol agent in agriculture. Especially, Trichoderma reesei is famous as an industrially important cellulolytic filamentous fungus that produced secondgeneration biofuels from cellulosic waste ( Schuster & Schmoll 2010).