Despite our increasing recognition of the key role that microbes play in ecosystem processes (e.g., Giller et al. 1997; Mills and Bever 1998; van der Heijden et al. 1998), concern over the loss of biodiversity in ecological communities rarely focuses on microbes— particularly pathogenic microbes which are more often targeted for eradication than preservation (but see Windsor 1995). Yet it is be...

The Quercus mongolica has a high utilization value in industrial economic sector. species is distributed throughout Korea, however, the damage caused by deterioration such as discoloration and decay severe. For this reason, of Q. an obstacle to its use wood, but research on factors insufficient. In study, we focused fungi factor influencing mongolica, isolated identified from deteriorated mongo...

The ability of pathogenic fungi to switch between a multicellular hyphal and unicellular yeast growth form is a tightly regulated process known as dimorphic switching. Dimorphic switching requires the fungus to sense and respond to the host environment and is essential for pathogenicity. This review will focus on the role of dimorphism in fungi commonly called thermally dimorphic fungi, which s...

Biological treatment systems have emerged as cost-effective and eco-friendly techniques for treating waste gases from process industries at moderately high gas flow rates and low pollutant concentrations. In this study, we have assessed the performance of a two-stage bioreactor, namely a biotrickling filter packed with pall rings (BTF, 1st stage) and a perlite + pall ring mixed biofilter (BF, 2...