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Karl-Henrik Larsson

Karl-Henrik Larsson

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Biology and Biochemistry

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52
Citations
30710
World Ranking
16410
National Ranking
85

Overview

Karl-Henrik Larsson is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway. Their research spans multiple disciplines within Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The primary areas of study include Plant Science, Cell Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Pharmacology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics related to fungi and plant interactions, plant pathogens, fungal ecology, and applications in fungal biology. Main topics of research involve:

  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Lichen and fungal ecology
  • Fungal Biology and Applications
  • Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
  • Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies

Karl-Henrik Larsson has published frequently in several scientific venues. These include:

  • Mycological Progress
  • Fungal Systematics and Evolution
  • Fungal Biology
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Microorganisms

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Larsson are:

  • The UNITE database for molecular identification and taxonomic communication of fungi and other eukaryotes: sequences, taxa and classifications reconsidered (2023, Nucleic Acids Research)
  • The Taxon Hypothesis Paradigm-On the Unambiguous Detection and Communication of Taxa (2020, Microorganisms)
  • Multigene phylogeny and taxonomic revision of Atheliales s.l.: Reinstatement of three families and one new family, Lobuliciaceae fam. nov. (2020, Fungal Biology)
  • Competing sexual-asexual generic names in Agaricomycotina (Basidiomycota) with recommendations for use (2021, IMA Fungus)
  • Additions to Trechispora and the status of Scytinopogon (Trechisporales, Basidiomycota) (2021, Mycological Progress)

The scientist often collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Viacheslav Spirin
  • Ilya Viner
  • Otto Miettinen
  • Vera Malysheva
  • Ellen Larsson

Best Publications

  • Towards a unified paradigm for sequence-based identification of fungi

    Urmas Koljalg;Urmas Koljalg;R. Henrik Nilsson;Kessy Abarenkov;Leho Tedersoo

  • Global diversity and geography of soil fungi

    Leho Tedersoo;Mohammad Bahram;Sergei Põlme;Urmas Kõljalg

  • The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi: handling dark taxa and parallel taxonomic classifications.

    Rolf Henrik Nilsson;Karl Henrik Larsson;Andy F.S. Taylor;Johan Bengtsson-Palme;Johan Bengtsson-Palme

  • A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi

    David S Hibbett;Manfred Binder;Joseph F Bischoff;Meredith Blackwell

  • The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi - recent updates and future perspectives

    Kessy Abarenkov;R. Henrik Nilsson;R. Henrik Nilsson;Karl‐Henrik Larsson;Ian J. Alexander

  • UNITE: a database providing web-based methods for the molecular identification of ectomycorrhizal fungi

    Urmas Kõljalg;Karl-Henrik Larsson;Kessy Abarenkov;R. Henrik Nilsson

  • FungalTraits: a user-friendly traits database of fungi and fungus-like stramenopiles

    Sergei Põlme;Sergei Põlme;Kessy Abarenkov;R. Henrik Nilsson;Björn D. Lindahl

  • Intraspecific ITS Variability in the Kingdom Fungi as Expressed in the International Sequence Databases and Its Implications for Molecular Species Identification

    R. Henrik Nilsson;Erik Kristiansson;Martin Ryberg;Nils Hallenberg

  • Taxonomic reliability of DNA sequences in public sequence databases: a fungal perspective.

    R. Henrik Nilsson;Martin Ryberg;Erik Kristiansson;Kessy Abarenkov

  • Finding Evolutionary Processes Hidden in Cryptic Species

    Torsten H. Struck;Jeffrey L. Feder;Mika Bendiksby;Mika Bendiksby;Siri Birkeland

  • The phylogenetic distribution of resupinate forms across the major clades of mushroom-forming fungi (Homobasidiomycetes)

    Manfred Binder;David S. Hibbett;Karl-Henrik Larsson;Ellen Larsson

  • Fine scale distribution of ectomycorrhizal fungi and roots across substrate layers including coarse woody debris in a mixed forest

    Leho Tedersoo;Urmas Kõljalg;Nils Hallenberg;Karl‐Henrik Larsson

  • Finding needles in haystacks: Linking scientific names, reference specimens and molecular data for Fungi

    Conrad L. Schoch;Barbara Robbertse;Vincent Robert;Duong Vu

  • Re-thinking the classification of corticioid fungi.

    Karl-Henrik Larsson

  • Global diversity and distribution of macrofungi

    Gregory M. Mueller;John P. Schmit;Patrick R. Leacock;Bart Buyck

  • Vertical distribution of ectomycorrhizal fungal taxa in a podzol soil profile

    A. Rosling;R. Landeweert;B. D. Lindahl;K.‐H. Larsson

  • PlutoF—a Web Based Workbench for Ecological and Taxonomic Research, with an Online Implementation for Fungal ITS Sequences

    Kessy Abarenkov;Kessy Abarenkov;Leho Tedersoo;Leho Tedersoo;R. Henrik Nilsson;R. Henrik Nilsson;Kai Vellak

  • Phylogenetic and phylogenomic overview of the Polyporales

    Manfred Binder;Alfredo Justo;Robert Riley;Asaf Salamov

  • High phylogenetic diversity among corticioid homobasidiomycetes

    Karl-Henrik Larsson;Ellen Larsson;Urmas Kõljalg

  • Hymenochaetales: a molecular phylogeny for the hymenochaetoid clade.

    Karl-Henrik Larsson;Erast Parmasto;Michael Fischer;Ewald Langer

Frequent Co-Authors

Urmas Kõljalg
Urmas Kõljalg University of Tartu
R. Henrik Nilsson
R. Henrik Nilsson University of Gothenburg
Leho Tedersoo
Leho Tedersoo University of Tartu
Kessy Abarenkov
Kessy Abarenkov University of Tartu
Andy F. S. Taylor
Andy F. S. Taylor University of Aberdeen
Gareth W. Griffith
Gareth W. Griffith Aberystwyth University
József Geml
József Geml Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Jan Stenlid
Jan Stenlid Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Tom W. May
Tom W. May Royal Botanic Gardens
Rasmus Kjøller
Rasmus Kjøller University of Copenhagen

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