Soil salinisation has been considered a substantial ecosystem issue with negative effects on sustainable agricultural practices. Practices of vegetation restoration are widely conducted for coping saline soil degradation, especially in saline-alkali abandoned farmland. Compared bulk soils, the rhizosphere soils plants have different microbial community structures. However, how associations and ...

During a survey of saprophytic microfungi on decomposing woody, herbaceous debris and soil from different regions in Southern Europe, a wide range of interesting species of asexual ascomycetes were found. Phylogenetic analyses based on partial gene sequences of SSU, LSU and ITS proved that most of these fungi were related to Sordariomycetes and Dothideomycetes and to lesser extent to Leotiomyce...

Lichens are symbiotic partnerships between a filamentous fungus and photosymbiotic “alga”. Studies show that lichens harbor endothallic fungi, but some taxa have been difficult to isolate from the main thallus-forming other faster growing lichenicolous/endothallic fungi. Therefore, we aimed develop evaluate liquid yeast-enrichment strategies (1) lichen-associated yeasts in pure culture, (2) det...

Abstract Background Bio-based and biodegradable plastics are considered as of the future owing to their ability decompose under various environmental conditions. However, effects on soil microbiome poorly characterised. In this study, we aimed investigate an important bio-based plastic, polybutylene succinate-co-adipate (PBSA), microbial diversity community composition using high-resolution mol...

Using morphological characters, cultural characters, large subunit and internal transcribed spacer rDNA (ITS) sequences, and provisions of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, this paper attempts to resolve the taxonomic and nomenclatural confusion surrounding three species of cladosporium-like hyphomycetes. The type specimen of Hormodendrum resinae, the basis for the use of the ep...