Neonothopanus nambi
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| Neonothopanus nambi | |
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| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Omphalotaceae |
| Genus: | Neonothopanus |
| Species: | N. nambi |
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| Neonothopanus nambi | |
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Neonothopanus nambi is a poisonous and bioluminescent mushroom in the family Omphalotaceae.[1] The genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying this species' bioluminescence were published in 2019, the first to be elucidated for a fungus.[2] In 2020, genes from this fungus were used to create bioluminescent tobacco plants.[3]
Italian-Argentinian naturalist Carlo Luigi Spegazzini described the species in 1883 as Agaricus nambí in the subgenus Pleurotus, from material collected in December 1879 near Guarapí,[4] a locality in Yaguarón, Paraguarí Department, Paraguay.[5] Pier Andrea Saccardo placed it in the genus Pleurotus.[6] Ronald H. Petersen and Irmgard Krisai placed the fungus in the new genus Neonothopanus in 1999.[7]