The Ecology of Pathogenic Dematiaceous Fungi.

Dematiaceous Fungi, a Cause of Poor Root Health in Sugarcane

THE Australian sugar industry generally employs a sugarcane monoculture system. This has led to a growth limitation associated with sub-optimal soil biological, chemical and physical characteristics; the condition has been called yield decline. Research over a number of years has shown soil biological factors make a very significant contribution to this condition and poor root health is a key f...

Infections caused by dematiaceous fungi and their anatomoclinical correlations.

The Exophiala genus comprises dimorphic melanized fungi responsible for a spectrum of diseases including phaeohyphomycosis, mycetoma, chromoblastomycosis and fungemia. The E. jeanselmei species is predominant in such infections, followed by E. dermatitidis. This paper aims at reporting four cases and at discussing clinical, histologycal, mycologycal and epidemiologycal aspects for its diagnosis.

The ecology of ectomycorrhizal fungi

The ecology of ectomycorrhizal fungi

Identification of pathogenic dematiaceous fungi and related taxa based on large subunit ribosomal DNA D1/D2 domain sequence analysis.

The nucleotide sequences of the D1/D2 domains of large subunit (26S) ribosomal DNA for 76 strains of 46 species of pathogenic dematiaceous fungi and related taxa were determined. Intra-species sequence diversity of medically important dematiaceous fungi including Phialophora verrucosa, Fonsecaea pedrosoi, Fonsecaea compacta, Cladophialophora carrionii, Cladophialophora bantiana, Exophiala derma...