PUBLICATIONS ABOUT THE ARP:

Kerrigan, R. W.  1996.  Characteristics of a large collection of edible wild mushroom germ plasm: the Agaricus Resource Program.  pp 302-307 in Samson, R. A. et al., eds.  Culture Collections to Improve the Quality of Life.   Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, P.O. Box 273, 3740 AG Barn, The Netherlands.

Kerrigan, R. W.  1991.  What on earth is the Agaricus Recovery Program? The Mycologist 5(1):22.

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS ON ISOLATES IN THE ARP COLLECTION:

 Kerrigan, R. W., Horgen, P. A., and Anderson, J. B.   1993.  The California population of Agaricus bisporus comprises at least two ancestral elements. Sys. Bot. 18:123-136.

Wang, Z. S., Liao, J. H., Li, F. G., Chi, Z. N., and Wang, H. C.  1993.   Identification of field-collected isolates of Agaricus bisporus. Micol. Neotrop. Apl. 6:127-136.

Callac, P., Billette, C., Imbernon, M., and Kerrigan, R. W.   1993.  Morphological, genetic, and interfertility analyses reveal a novel, tetrasporic variety of Agaricus bisporus from the sonoran desert of California. Mycologia 85:835-851.

Kerrigan, R. W., Imbernon, M., Callac, P., Billette, C., and Olivier, J.-M.  1994.   The heterothallic life cycle of Agaricus bisporus var. burnettii and the inheritance of its tetrasporic trait. Exp. Mycol. 18:193-210.

Kerrigan, R. W.  1995.  Global genetic resources for Agaricus breeding and cultivation.  Can. J. Bot. 73 (Suppl I):S973 - S979.

Kerrigan, R. W., Carvallho, D. M., Horgen, P. A., and Anderson, J. B. 1995. Indigenous and introduced populations of Agaricus bisporus, the cultivated 'button mushroom, in eastern and western Canada. Can. J. Bot. 73:1925-1938.

Imbernon, M., Callac, P., Granit, S, and Pirobe, L.   1995.  Allelic polymorphism at the mating type locus in Agaricus bisporus, and confirmation of the dominance of its tetrasporic trait.  pp. 11- 20 in Elliott, T. J., ed.  Mush. Sci. 14.  A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Kerrigan, R. W., Velcko, A. J., Jr., and Spear, M. C.   1995.  Linkage mapping of two loci controlling reproductive traits in the secondarilly homothallic agaric basidiomycete Agaricus bisporus.  pp. 21-28 in Elliott, T. J., ed.   Mush. Sci. 14.  A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Sonnenberg, A. S. M., Van Kemper, I. P. J., and Van Griensven, L. J. L. D.  1995.   Detection of Agaricus bisporus viral dsRNAs in pure cultures, spawn, and spawn-run compost by RT-PCR.  pp. 587-594 in Elliott, T. J., ed.  Mush. Sci. 14.   A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Dragt, J. W., Geels, F. P., Rutjens, A. J., and Van Griensven, L., J. L. D.  1995.   Resistance in wild types of Agaricus bisporus to the mycoparasite Verticillium fungicola var. fungicola.   pp. 679-683 in Elliott, T. J., ed.   Mush. Sci. 14.  A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Imbernon, M., Callac, P., Gasqui, P., Kerrigan, R. W., and Velcko, A. J. 1996. BSN, the primary determinant of basidial spore number and reproductive mode in Agaricus bisporus, maps to chromosome I. Mycologia 88:749-761.

Sonnenberg, A. S. M., Dragt, J. W., and Van Griensven, L. J. L. D.  1996.   The use of the ARP collection in breeding of Agaricus bisporus.  pp 297-302 in Samson, R. A. et al.  Culture Collections to Improve the Quality of Life.   Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, P.O. Box 273, 3740 AG Barn, The Netherlands.

Kerrigan, R. W., Billette, C., Callac, P, and Velcko, A. J.  1996.  A summary of allelic diversity and geographical distribution at six allozyme loci of Agaricus bisporus.  pp. 57-66 in Royse, D. J., ed.   Mushroom Biology and Mushroom Products.  The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.

Callac, P, Imbernon, M., Kerrigan, R. W., and Olivier, J.-M.  1996.  The two life cycles of Agaricus bisporus.  pp. 25-36 in Royse, D. J., ed.  Mushroom Biology and Mushroom Products.  The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.

Callac, P., Desmerger, C., Kerrigan, R. W., and Imbernon, M. 1997. Conservation of genetic linkage with map expansion in distantly related crosses of Agaricus bisporus. FEMS Microb. 146:35-240.

Robison, M. M., Kerrigan, R. W., and Horgen, P. A. 1997. Distribution of plasmids and a plasmid-like sequence in the genus Agaricus. Mycologia 89:43-47.

Xu, J., Kerrigan, R. W., Callac, P., Horgen, P. A., and Anderson, J. B. 1997. Genetic structure of natural populations of Agaricus bisporus, the commercial button mushroom. J. Hered. 88:482-488.

Xu, J., Kerrigan, R. W., Sonnenberg, A., Callac, P., Horgen, P. A., and Anderson, J. B. 1998. Mitochondrial DNA variation in natural populations of the mushroom Agaricus bisporus.  Molec. Ecol. 7:19-33.

Kerrigan, R. W., Carvalho, D. B., Horgen, P. A., and Anderson, J. B. 1998. The indigenous coastal Californian population of the mushroom Agaricus bisporus, a cultivated species, may be at risk of extinction.   Molec. Ecol. 7:35-45.

Kerrigan, R. W., Callac, P., Xu, J., and Noble, R.  [submitted]   Phylogenetic structure within the Agaricus subfloccosus complex: evidence for two species.

Additional publications from various labs are in press or in preparation.

MEETING ABSTRACTS:

Sonnenberg, A. S. M., C. Gere, and L. J. L. D. Van Griensven. 1994. Mitochondria in a wild collection of the [white] button mushroom Agaricus bisporus. IMC V, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

 Robison, M., and P. A. Horgen 1994. RNA polymerase-like sequences in the mitochondria of Agaricus species. IMC V, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

 Baars, J. J. P., Sonnenberg, A. S. M., and Van Griensven, L. J. L. D.  1998.   A transposon related repetitive element in the genome of the white button mushroom Agaricus bisporus.  at GCBB4, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, March 1998 [proceedings in press, publication due later in 1998].