Carbonell, Luis M. (Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela), and Joaquín Rodríguez. Transformation of mycelial and yeast forms of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis in cultures and in experimental inoculations. J. Bacteriol. 90:504-510. 1965.-Experimental transformations of mycelial to yeast and yeast to mycelial forms in culture, and mycelial to yeast forms in tissu...

ABSTRACT The in vitro effects of a red pine phenolic compound (pinosylvin), a phenolic compound common to other species (tannic acid), and the major red pine monoterpenes (alpha-pinene, beta-pinene, and delta-3-carene) on spore germination and mycelial growth of Sphaeropsis sapinea were examined. Two A and two B morphotype isolates were used. At 88 mug/mm(2), pinosylvin inhibited spore germinat...

The oomycete vegetable pathogen Phytophthora capsici causes significant losses of important vegetable crops worldwide. Calcium and other plant nutrients have been used in disease management of oomycete pathogens. Calcium homeostasis and signaling is essential for numerous biological processes, and Ca(2+) channel blockers prevent excessive Ca(2+) influx into the fungal cell. However, it is not k...

Collaborative work appears between intelligent agents of different types. The problem discussed occurred when many construction workers were taken to Germany from Romania to work in construction projects. Managers have to make independent groups of workers from some categories, like carpenters, brick layers, etc. To discover their collaborative attitudes they use the scoring method, where every...

The optical density ( 450 nm) of samples of homogenized fungal biomass correlated linearly with the dry weight of the biomass in the samples. As shown for broths of the filamentous microfungus Neurospora sitophila, the sensitivity of the technique depended on the extent of fragmentation of fungal hyphae during homogenization: increased fragmentation increased sensitivity. The method applied dur...

Pistachio nut is a strategic product throughout the world, especially in Iran. There are some problems that reduce production and export of pistachios, for example, postharvest fungi, especially Aspergillus spp., that lead to production of mycotoxins. Nowadays the use of chemical and synthetic antifungals is discouraged and reduced because of health risks to mankind and nature. In present study...

Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, the etiologic agent of paracoccidioidomycosis, causes disease much more frequently in men than it does in women, suggesting that the hormonal milieu of the host might influence P. brasiliensis pathogenicity. We recently demonstrated that cytosol from yeast cultures of P. brasiliensis contains a high-affinity, low-capacity, tritiated 17 beta-estradiol [( 3H]estradi...

Abstract Motivated by reconstruction results Rubin, we introduce a new notion for permutation groups, transformation monoids and clones, called automatic action compatibility, which entails homeomorphicity. We further give characterization of homeomorphicity on arbitrary carriers with dense group invertibles having then show how to lift compatibility from groups clones under fairly weak assumpt...

The in vitro effect of five commonly used herbicides viz., pyridate, fluazifop-P-butyl, foramsulfuron, tembotrione and Smetolachlor on mycelial growth of entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana (ATCC 74040) was evaluated each at different concentrations: 100, 75, 50, 25, 12.5, 6.25 and 0% of recommended field application rate on PDA agar plates at 15 and 25°C. The herbicides tested were clas...

The objective of the present study was to investigate the optimal nutritional requirements for mycelial growth and sporulation of entomopathogenic fungus Aschersonia aleyrodis Webber by orthogonal layout methods. Herein the order of effects of nutrient components on mycelial growth was tryptone > Ca(2+) > soluble starch > folacin, corresponding to the following optimal concentrations: 1.58% Sol...