... and diameter of skeletal hyphae are useful delimiting characters. The ecology is also very important, because the plant host ... They have been proposed in a number of fungal genera, including the basidiomycete genus Fomes. The main aim of this work was to ... When strains were tested against themselves, hyphal anastomoses were readily formed all over the confrontation zone (positive ... At least 30 spores or hyphal elements were measured for statistical evaluation. ...