Heavy metal (HM) contamination in the soil and accumulation plants poses a serious threat to crops human health. HMs such as cadmium, mercury, lead arsenic are widely acknowledged for their adverse effects on chlorosis, necrosis, low food quality crop yields. Endophytic fungi secrete secondary metabolites enhance plant’s ability tolerate stressful conditions. However, role of most fungal endoph...

Los nematodos fitoparásitos son problemas en los cafetales de la zona selva alta peruana clima tropical húmedo; las raíces afectadas por estos organismos microscópicos y que su control no es efectivo al existir alternativas manejo con enfoque biológico; el objetivo fue comparar efecto nematicidas químicos, biológicos orgánicos plantones cafeto. En cada unidad experimental población estuvo confo...

The fungal genus Paecilomyces comprises numerous pathogenic and saprobic species, which are regularly isolated from insects, nematodes, soil, air, food, paper and many other materials. Some of the Paecilomyces species have been known to exhibit capabilities for curing human diseases. Here, bioactivities of metabolites from some soil inhabitant and invertebrate pathogenic Paecilomyces species we...

Paecilomyces variotii is a commonly occurring species in air and food, and it is also associated with many types of human infections. Pneumonia due to Paecilomyces variotii has been rarely reported in the medical literature. The authors report a 48-year-old patient with refractory lymphoma who underwent allogenic hematopoietic cell transplantation and developed pneumonia due to Paecilomyces var...