Aydın yöresinden toplanan Lactarius cinsine ait türlerin morfolojik ve moleküler tanısı

Genus Lactarius is relatively large genus that contains more than two hundred species. They generally known as milky mushrooms. If you cut its sprofores when it is fresh different colored milk or sap will be sacrated. Latex could be colourful or colorless and it is an important taxonomic character. Lactarius resides with in order Russulales and forms mycorhiza with genera Quercus, Carpus, Fagus and Betula. Lactarius species can be found in Pine and Oak forests. The local people collects there mushrooms and sells in open markets and also it has been exported in European countries. Lactarius is systematicly problematic genus which has a lot of morphological studies but none molecular study in Turkey. Because of this, in this study we aimed to reach more reliable results on indentification of Lactarius by using molecular techniques with morphological techniquies which couse problems to indentify samples which were collected from different suitable locations. For this reason we collected Lactarius samples from 23 different locations in the autumn (2012- 2013). As a result of this study with using morphological indentification and rDNA ITS primers we found six different species which are Lactarius deliciosus, Lactarius sanguifluus, Lactarius decipiens, Lactarius chrysorrheus, Lactarius vinosus, Lactarius tesquorum. Besides we found that the region is rich in Lactarius deliciosus. Key words: Lactarius, Macrofungi, ITS, Molecular techniques, mycorhiza Aydin.