background: dermatophytes are the most common causative agents of superficial mycoses. species identification of these fungi is important from therapeutic and epidemiological point of wive. traditional approaches for identification of dermatophytes at the species level, relying on macroscopic and microscopic features of the colonies, usually are time-consuming and unreliable in many circumstanc...

a total of 105 isolates of erysiphe betae from different regions of iran were investigated. for probable polymorphism of its-5.8s regions using pcr-based rflp, the mentioned fragments were amplified via pcr by its1 and its4 primers and subjected to 1.5% agarose gel electrophoresis. pcr products were digested by haeiii, alui, taqi, hindiii, cfoi, ecori, mspi, saci and rsai res and the digestion ...

background recent evidences have revealed that in more than 65% of microbial infections, biofilms have critical roles. the ability of yeasts to form biofilms on surface of medical devices such as urine catheters is an important reason of the capability of these microorganisms to cause human disease. objectives the aim of this study was to isolate and identify yeasts on the surfaces of urine cat...

conclusions the findings of this study indicated that these isolates were plant pathogenic fungi, which entered seawater from the environment, and were likely to have a suitable lipase activity on plant oils. results four fungal species were isolated from water samples of the caspian sea (north of iran) between february and june 2011. the nucleotide sequences reported for three of these isolate...

background: yeast infections are increasing cause of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients. in order to perform a dna-based diagnostic test, availability of a rapid and easy-to-perform dna extraction protocol is essential. in the present study we evaluated colony-pcr as the easiest way to amplification of target dna. methods: instead of using templates of purified genomic dna, w...

Most vascular plants harbour mutualistic fungi in their roots, forming associations called mycorrhizas (Brundrett & Tedersoo, 2018; Van Der Heijden et al., 2015). Mycorrhizas are chimeric organs, composed of both plant tissues and fungal hyphae, where nutrient exchanges can occur directions (Smith Read, 2008). While provide photosynthetic acquired carbon to partners, the latter improve hydro-mi...