Plants and animals may serve as excellent hosts for many fungi. Spores from fungi (molds) are primarily spread by water and air and come into contact with plants in the field or with grain in storage facilities. Factors that influence the degree of fungal infestation in grain are moisture, temperature and availability of oxygen. Other factors such as insect population, physical condition of gra...

The wild tobacco species Nicotiana attenuata has been intensively used as a model plant to study its interaction with insect herbivores and pollinators in nature, however very little is known about its native pathogen community. We describe a fungal disease outbreak in a native N. attenuata population comprising 873 plants growing in an area of about 1500 m2. The population was divided into 14 ...

389 Exposure and sensitization to allergens can promote development and exacerbation of allergic disease. Various indoor aller-gens, including dust mites, animal dander, and mold have been reported to associate with allergic disease. Fungal spores and particles are widely distributed in outdoor and indoor environments and exposure to fungi has been shown to induce allergic disease and exacerbat...

introduction: fungi are biological threatening which exist in all the environments. libraries and archive centers are a suitable environment for the growth of fungi. the aim of this study was to identify fungal life-threatening factors for librarians and users in libraries of isfahan university of medical sciences, iran in 2011. methods: this was a cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical stu...

fungi are found in different environments with variable distribution patterns depending on various factors. the aim of this study was determination of fungal contaminants in public swimming pools in uromia, iran. the fungal contaminations of four indoor swimming pools were studied by using membrane filtration and swab sampling method. samples were collected by a manual plastic pump, in a 200 ml...

The micro-fungal flora of heavy metals contaminated peri-urban agricultural fields of Pakistan were investigated in terms of their diversity by soil serial dilution method. A total of 30 micro-fungi were isolated from 6 sampling sites. Of these isolates 24 belong to phylum Ascomycota, 3 to phylum Zygomycota, 2 to phylum Basidiomycota and 1 to phylum Deuteromycota. The most widespread genus was ...

The Experiments were carried out during the period of July 2001 to December 2002. Infestation of poultry feeds by fungi and aflatoxins content in feeds were determined. Ten feed samples were collected from ten different farms located in three different areas of Bangladesh. Five different fungal species belonging four genera were detected which were Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus niger, Fusariu...

Salak fruit in Indonesia was produced by various cultivated varieties, one of which is sidempuan salak (Salacca sumatrana). Post-harvest destroying fungi the most causes yield losses on salak. The purpose this study to enumerate and pathogenicity postharvest As many as 1000 g fresh harvested used sample. Fungal population enumerated dilution method followed pour plate method. intensity infectio...

Proteolytic, aminopeptidase, endopeptidase and carboxypeptidase activities of seven strains of rumen anaerobic fungi, selected to represent the fungal population commonly found in the rumen, were investigated in vitro. Whatever the nitrogen source included in the culture medium, a proteolytic activity against the 14C-labelled casein was detected in only one fungal strain. This strain belonged t...

Hypovirulence in fungal plant pathogens refers to the reduced ability of selected isolates within a population of a pathogen to infect, colonize, kill, and (or) reproduce on susceptible host tissues and is often associated with fungal viruses and associated double-stranded RNA elements. It has been reported to occur in numerous fungal plant pathogens, including Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, S. mino...