1. Suitable conditions have been determined for growing the fungus Phoma foveata in culture for optimum production of pigments. 2. The pigments have been extracted and fractionated according to their solubility in aqueous bicarbonate, carbonate and alkali. 3. The carbonate- and alkali-soluble pigments have been further separated by chromatography and shown to consist of anthraquinone derivative...

Phoma stem canker is a damaging disease of oilseed rape (Brassica napus) that causes annual yield losses to UK growers worth approximately £100 million, despite the use fungicides. In UK, sown in August/September and harvested following July. The epidemics are initiated by ascospores released from Leptosphaeria spp. pseudothecia (ascocarps) on stubble autumn/winter. Control this reliant cultiva...

BACKGROUND Pokkah boeng disease caused by the Fusarium species complex results in significant yield losses in sugarcane. Thus, the rapid and accurate detection and identification of the pathogen is urgently required to manage and prevent the spreading of sugarcane pokkah boeng. METHODS A total of 101 isolates were recovered from the pokkah boeng samples collected from five major sugarcane pro...

Development of a plant disease like Phoma blight (Phoma sojicola) soybean ]Glycine max (L.) Merr.] in time and space is variable, largely depending on environmental factors temperature, precipitation humidity. Considering importance this disease, understanding its dynamics via mathematical statistical models will help forecasting prevention yield losses. To serve objective, present study epidem...

OBJECTIVE To study bioactivity and compounds produced by an endophytic Phoma sp. fungus isolated from the medicinal plant Cinnamomum mollissimum. METHODS Compounds produced by the fungus were extracted from fungal broth culture with ethyl acetate. This was followed by bioactivity profiling of the crude extract fractions obtained via high performance liquid chromatography. The fractions were t...


 Records of 25 species lichenicolous fungi from Ternopil oblast (Ukraine) are provided. Among them, Dacampia cyrtellae, Didymocyrtis slaptonensis, Epithamnolia xanthoriae, Lichenotubeufia heterodermiae, Phoma peltigerae, Tremella caloplacae, Trichoconis physciicola, Unguiculariopsis lucaniae, Xenonectriella physciacearum, and X. zimmermanni reported for the first time Ukraine. is a new ge...