Trichoderma Pers.
(a genus of dematiaceous anamorphic fungi)

Interactions where Trichoderma is the dominant partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Stage		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season
colony		colony inhibits colony			Botrytis aclada	Onion Neck Rot - causative organism	Helotiales: Sclerotiniaceae	Observations on the interaction between Trichoderma viride and three Botrytis species, Roulston, S. & Lane, S.D., 1988	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Hypocreales/Hypocreaceae/Trichoderma/	Trichoderma	a genus of dematiaceous anamorphic fungi				colony	Inhibits or restricts the growth of			/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Botrytis aclada/	Botrytis aclada	onion neck rot (causative organism)				colony		Indoors, in greenhouse, captivity, culture or experimentally induced
colony		colony inhibits sclerotium			Botrytis aclada	Onion Neck Rot - causative organism	Helotiales: Sclerotiniaceae	Observations on the interaction between Trichoderma viride and three Botrytis species, Roulston, S. & Lane, S.D., 1988	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Hypocreales/Hypocreaceae/Trichoderma/	Trichoderma	a genus of dematiaceous anamorphic fungi				colony	Inhibits or restricts the growth of			/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Botrytis aclada/	Botrytis aclada	onion neck rot (causative organism)				sclerotium		Indoors, in greenhouse, captivity, culture or experimentally induced
colony		colony inhibits colony			Botrytis cinerea	Grey Mould	Helotiales: Sclerotiniaceae	Observations on the interaction between Trichoderma viride and three Botrytis species, Roulston, S. & Lane, S.D., 1988	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Hypocreales/Hypocreaceae/Trichoderma/	Trichoderma	a genus of dematiaceous anamorphic fungi				colony	Inhibits or restricts the growth of			/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Botrytis cinerea/	Botrytis cinerea	grey mould				colony		Indoors, in greenhouse, captivity, culture or experimentally induced
colony		colony inhibits sclerotium			Botrytis cinerea	Grey Mould	Helotiales: Sclerotiniaceae	Observations on the interaction between Trichoderma viride and three Botrytis species, Roulston, S. & Lane, S.D., 1988	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Hypocreales/Hypocreaceae/Trichoderma/	Trichoderma	a genus of dematiaceous anamorphic fungi				colony	Inhibits or restricts the growth of			/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Botrytis cinerea/	Botrytis cinerea	grey mould				sclerotium		Indoors, in greenhouse, captivity, culture or experimentally induced
colony		colony inhibits colony			Botrytis fabae	Bean Chocolate Spot - causative organism, Chocolate Spot Disease	Helotiales: Sclerotiniaceae	Observations on the interaction between Trichoderma viride and three Botrytis species, Roulston, S. & Lane, S.D., 1988	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Hypocreales/Hypocreaceae/Trichoderma/	Trichoderma	a genus of dematiaceous anamorphic fungi				colony	Inhibits or restricts the growth of			/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Botrytis fabae/	Botrytis fabae	bean chocolate spot - causative organism, chocolate spot disease				colony		Indoors, in greenhouse, captivity, culture or experimentally induced
colony		colony inhibits sclerotium			Botrytis fabae	Bean Chocolate Spot - causative organism, Chocolate Spot Disease	Helotiales: Sclerotiniaceae	Observations on the interaction between Trichoderma viride and three Botrytis species, Roulston, S. & Lane, S.D., 1988	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Hypocreales/Hypocreaceae/Trichoderma/	Trichoderma	a genus of dematiaceous anamorphic fungi				colony	Inhibits or restricts the growth of			/Fungi/Ascomycota/Leotiomycetes/Helotiales/Sclerotiniaceae/Botrytis fabae/	Botrytis fabae	bean chocolate spot - causative organism, chocolate spot disease				sclerotium		Indoors, in greenhouse, captivity, culture or experimentally induced
colony		colony inhibits colony			Ophiostoma ulmi	Dutch Elm Disease - Native Form	Ophiostomatales: Ophiostomataceae	Observations on the interaction between Trichoderma viride and three Botrytis species, Roulston, S. & Lane, S.D., 1988	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Hypocreales/Hypocreaceae/Trichoderma/	Trichoderma	a genus of dematiaceous anamorphic fungi				colony	Inhibits or restricts the growth of			/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Ophiostomatales/Ophiostomataceae/Ophiostoma ulmi/	Ophiostoma ulmi	Dutch elm disease - native form				colony
colony		colony inhibits colony			Chondrostereum purpureum	Silverleaf Fungus, Silver Leaf Disease	Agaricales: Cyphellaceae	Observations on the interaction between Trichoderma viride and three Botrytis species, Roulston, S. & Lane, S.D., 1988	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Hypocreales/Hypocreaceae/Trichoderma/	Trichoderma	a genus of dematiaceous anamorphic fungi				colony	Inhibits or restricts the growth of			/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Agaricales/Cyphellaceae/Chondrostereum purpureum/	Chondrostereum purpureum	silverleaf fungus, silver leaf disease				colony

Author & Year	Title	Source
Roulston, S. & Lane, S.D., 1988	Observations on the interaction between Trichoderma viride and three Botrytis species	Mycologist Vol 02 (4): 176-177.

Trichoderma (a genus of dematiaceous anamorphic fungi) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Trichoderma (a genus of dematiaceous anamorphic fungi) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Pyrenomycetes
(charcoal fungi)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

Subtaxon				Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of interactions	No of references
Trichoderma aggressivum f.sp. europaeum a green mould				Forma specialis		1 trophisms	1 references
Trichoderma britannicum a pyrenomycete				Species		2 trophisms
Trichoderma citrinum a stromatic pyrenomycete				Species		4 trophisms
Trichoderma hamatum a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus				Anamorphic Species		1 trophisms
Trichoderma koningii a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus				Anamorphic Species		4 trophisms
Trichoderma longibrachiatum an anamorphic fungus				Anamorphic Species		10 trophisms	1 references
Trichoderma polysporum an anamorphic fungus				Anamorphic Species		4 trophisms
Trichoderma pulvinatum Ochre Cushion				Species		2 trophisms
Trichoderma spinulosum an ascomycete				Species		12 trophisms	1 references
Trichoderma viride agg.				Species aggregate			1 references

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Genus	Trichoderma (a genus of dematiaceous anamorphic fungi)
Family	HYPOCREACEAE (a family of pyrenomycetes)
Order	HYPOCREALES (an order of ascomycetes and lichens)
Subclass	SORDARIOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of ascomycetes and lichens)
Class	SORDARIOMYCETES (a class of ascomycetes)
Subphylum	PEZIZOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of ascomycetes)
Phylum	ASCOMYCOTA (spore shooters, ascomycete)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Trichoderma is also a member of:
Pyrenomycetes - charcoal fungi (via Sordariomycetes)
Micromycetes - microfungi (via Ascomycota)
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Trichoderma (a genus of dematiaceous anamorphic fungi)

Identification Works

Handling & Magnification	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Samuels, G.J., Petrini, O., Kuhls, K., Lieckfeldt, E. & Kubicek, C.P.	1998	The Hypocrea schweinitzii complex and Trichoderma sect. Longibrachiatum	Stud. Mycol. No. 41.

Trichoderma (a genus of dematiaceous anamorphic fungi) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

HYPOCREACEAE
(a family of pyrenomycetes)

HYPOCREALES
(an order of ascomycetes and lichens)

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Pyrenomycetes
(charcoal fungi)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

General Works

Author	Year	Title	Source
Jaklitsch, W.M.	2009	European species of Hypocrea Part I. The green-spored species	Stud. Mycol. Vol 63: 1-91.
Roulston, S. & Lane, S.D.	1988	Observations on the interaction between Trichoderma viride and three Botrytis species	Mycologist Vol 02 (4): 176-177.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Trichoderma (a genus of dematiaceous anamorphic fungi):

HYPOCREACEAE
(a family of pyrenomycetes)

HYPOCREALES
(an order of ascomycetes and lichens)

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Pyrenomycetes
(charcoal fungi)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

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