A field experiment was carried out to study the changes of soil bacteria, fungi and actinomycetes in saline-sodic soils for different numbers of cultivated years under drip irrigation. The drip irrigation had substantial effects on levels of bacteria, fungi and actinomycetes. With increased number of cultivated years under drip irrigation, the soil biological properties were greatly improved. A...

Proteolytic fungi from the soil samples were isolated on Reese agar plate containing casein as the protein substrate. The mycoflora of different localities of Sagar and Jabalpur districts of Madhya Pradesh were investigated at three different locations viz. Garden, Crop field and Poultry farms. These samples were labeled according to the site of collection as GS (Garden Soil), CFS (Crop Field S...

Verticillium dahliae is a soil-borne pathogen that difficult to eliminate, causes severe reduction in the yield and quality of eggplant, could be controlled through environmentally friendly biofumigation. However, mechanisms its effects on dynamic changes soil microbes not clear. In this study, we examined efficacy two Brassica vegetables, mustard (Brassica napiformis, BFN) oilseed rape napus, ...

Madurella mycetomatis is the main causative agent of human eumycetoma, a severe debilitating disease endemic in Sudan. It has been suggested that eumycetoma has a soil-borne or thorn prick-mediated origin. For this reason, efforts were undertaken to culture M. mycetomatis from soil samples (n = 43) and thorn collections (n = 35) derived from areas in which it is endemic. However, ribosomal sequ...

Entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) are widespread in agricultural fields and help suppress crop pests. These natural enemies may be hindered by certain agronomic practices associated with conventional agriculture including the use of pesticides. We tested whether the abundance of EPF differed between organic and conventional fields, and whether specific cropping practices and soil properties were cor...

abstract- desert truffles are hypogeous ascomyceteous ectomycorrhizal fungi, occurring in arid and semi-arid ecosystems. a pcr-based method was developed for the identification of 3 major desert truffles of iran: terfezia claveryi, tirmania pinoyi and tirmania nivea based on internal transcribed spacers of rdna. two specific pcr primers were designed for t. claveryi, 4 for t. pinoyi, and 2 for ...

The number and variety of the common fungi in the air vary as the result of a great many factors. Their tendency to contaminate cultures (particularly of skin scrapings) as well as their allergenic properties confer upon them a certain degree of importance.2' 3 The present studies were designed to familiarize us with the common fungi that might contaminate our cultures of skin scrapings from pa...

Microbial interactions in agricultural soils can play important roles the control of soil-borne phytopathogenic diseases. Yields from blueberry plantations southern Spain have been impacted by pathogenic fungus, Macrophomina phaseolina. The use chemical fungicides has common method for preventing fungal infections, but due to their high environmental impact, legislation is increasingly restrict...