Trametes elegans

The basidiocarp of T. elegans is brown with narrow semi-dadeloid pores.{{Cite journal |last=Kanakasundar |first=Arivananthan |date=1 Jan 2023 |title=Trametes elegans: Sources and Potential Medicinal and Food Applications |url=https://research.tees.ac.uk/en/publications/trametes-elegans-sources-and-potential-medicinal-and-food-applica |journal=SHLS Life Sciences |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=348–353}} The pore surface is yellow, with a dark line separating the lower context and the upper tomentum.{{Cite journal |last1=Wahab |first1=Afshan |last2=Pfister |first2=Donald H. |last3=LoBuglio |first3=Kathy |last4=Din |first4=Siraj Ud |last5=Khalid |first5=Abdul Nasir |date=2021 |title=Some New Records of Trametes (Polyporales, Basidiomycota); from Pakistan |journal=Journal of Clinical Medical Research |volume=02 |issue=2 |doi=10.46889/jcmr.2021.2201|doi-access=free }} Defining characteristics of T. elegans include skeletal hyphae, thin-walled basidiospores, and a poroid hymenophore. T. elegans has no stipe and has a corky texture. It is circular, sessile, and flabelliform in shape. It is flexible when fresh and becomes more rigid as it dries.{{cite web |last1=Cody |first1=B. |last2=Grand |first2=L.F. |title=Lenzites elegans profile |url=https://ncslg.cals.ncsu.edu/files/2014/05/Lenzites-elegans.pdf |website=Mycological Herbarium NCSU |publisher=NC State University |date=March 2011}} The fruiting body of T. elegans is leathery and grows alone on dead wood. It is off-white, velvety, and has aerial hyphae in secondary mycelial culture.{{Cite journal |last1=R. Dulay |first1=Rich Milton |last2=Center for Tropical Mushroom Research and Development, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science, Central Luzon State University, Science City of Munoz, Nueva Ecija, 3120 Philippines |date=2021-01-30 |title=Nutritional and physical requirements for mycelial growth and basidiocarp production of Trametes elegans from the Philippines |url=https://www.asianjab.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/AJAB-2020-06-339.pdf |journal=Asian Journal of Agriculture and Biology |volume=2021 |issue=1 |doi=10.35495/ajab.2020.06.339|s2cid=226540784 }}

T. elegans shares a commensalistic relationship with various host plants where it provides protection to the plant against assault from other pathogens. Additionally, T. elegans is endophytic. As T. elegans belongs to the white rot fungi group, they are important in breaking down lignin from trees and they do so extracellularly, non-specifically, and non-hydrolytically. This is important for recycling carbon in forest ecosystems.{{Cite journal |last1=Osano |first1=AA |last2=Siboe |first2=GM |last3=Ochanda |first3=IO |last4=Kokwaro |first4=JO |date=2005-01-17 |title=Biodegradation Properties of White Rot Fungi in Karura Forest, Kenya |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/dai.v16i1.15660 |journal=Discovery and Innovation |volume=16 |issue=1 |doi=10.4314/dai.v16i1.15660 |issn=1015-079X}}

T. elegans prefers an intermediate temperature range of around 25-35 °C and can grow in both the soil and on synthetic media.{{Cite journal |last=Sagar |first=Sukrit |date=2020 |title=Optimization of mycelia growth parameters forWild white rot fungi Trametes elegans and Trametes versicolor |journal=Scopus Index Journal |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=4–14}} Additionally, they prefer to inhabit rotting wood and leaf litter in tropical forests. They prefer hardwood forests.

Trametes elegans is most common in tropical hardwood forests. Places where it occurs include West Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and the southern United States.

T. elegans has potential natural antimicrobial properties. In a study, researchers found that compounds isolated from T. elegans were able to inhibit microbial growth. These compounds include ergosta-5,7,22 trien-3-ol, 5α,8α–epidioxyergosta-6,9, 22-trien-3βol, 5α,8α–epidioxyergosta-6,22-dien-3β-ol, ergosta-7,22-dien-3β,5α,6β-triol, Lupeol, and 9,19- cycloartane-3,30-diol.{{Cite journal |last1=Mayaka |first1=Regina Kemunto |last2=Langat |first2=Moses Kiprotich |last3=Njue |first3=Alice Wanjiku |last4=Cheplogoi |first4=Peter Kiplagat |last5=Omolo |first5=Josiah Ouma |date=2019-11-08 |title=Chemical compounds from the Kenyan polypore <i>Trametes elegans</i> (Spreng:Fr.) Fr (Polyporaceae) and their antimicrobial activity |journal=International Journal of Biological and Chemical Sciences |volume=13 |issue=4 |pages=2352 |doi=10.4314/ijbcs.v13i4.37 |issn=1997-342X|doi-access=free }} These potential antimicrobial properties have been shown to apply to a wide range of bacteria and other fungi. The mechanism for this involves the reduction of oxidative stress and nitric oxides. Not only do T. elegans have great potential as possible antimicrobial agents, but they also have the potential to degrade compounds including pesticides, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, PCBs, dyes, TNT, cyanide, azide, carbon tetrachloride, and pentachlorophenol.{{Cite journal |last1=Lara |first1=Mayra A. |last2=Rodrı́guez-Malaver |first2=Antonio J. |last3=Rojas |first3=Orlando J. |last4=Holmquist |first4=Otón |last5=González |first5=Aura M. |last6=Bullón |first6=Johnny |last7=Peñaloza |first7=Nancy |last8=Araujo |first8=Elisa |date=2003-10-01 |title=Black liquor lignin biodegradation by Trametes elegans |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0964830503000556 |journal=International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation |language=en |volume=52 |issue=3 |pages=167–173 |doi=10.1016/S0964-8305(03)00055-6 |issn=0964-8305}}

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