Abstract Soil amended with rice straw compost significantly reduced sheath blight severity. The disease caused by the fungus Rhizoctonia solani Kühn is a severe disturbance to cultivation in Indonesia. R. soil borne fungi and highly competitive as saprophyte. In mature compost, propagules form of sclerotia germination were suppressed hyperparasites other biological control agents. Compost matur...

Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) de Barry is a soil habitat plant pathogen, able of infecting more than five hundred host spp., all over the world and doing crucial role in reduce yield economically important crops. rot also known as stem rot, incited by S. certical disease chickpea. We done an experiment which, number fungal isolation, purification, identification pathogenicity from infected ma...

Hyphal walls of Aspergillus phoenicis and Sclerotium rolfsii are composed of large amounts of glucose- and N-acetylhexosamine-containing polysaccharides, and the walls are extensively digested by streptomycete culture filtrates or by a mixture of purified chitinase and beta-(1 --> 3) glucanase preparations with the release of the monomeric units. A. phoenicis conidial walls also contain polymer...

Liquid and semi-solid culture media are used to maintain and proliferate bacteria, fungi, and Oomycetes for research in microbiology and plant pathology. In this study, a comparison was made between soybean milk medium, also referred to as soymilk, and media traditionally used for culturing soybean pathogens to determine if soymilk medium was an effective medium for growth of Colletotrichum tru...

There is growing interest in reducing Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) side effects while keeping intact its therapeutic efficacy. In the present study, we evaluated the efficacy of Sclerotia of Polyporus umbellatus FRIES (Zhuling) and its main ingredient Polyporus Polysaccharide (PPS) to attenuate side effects of BCG therapy in vivo. The results show that bladder cancer development in model rats ...

Two novel species of Aspergillus section Nigri from Thai coffee beans are described as Aspergillus aculeatinus sp. nov. and Aspergillus sclerotiicarbonarius sp. nov. Their taxonomic status was determined using a polyphasic taxonomic approach with phenotypic (morphology and extrolite profiles) and molecular (beta-tubulin, internal transcribed spacer and calmodulin gene sequences) characteristics...

Pleurotus tuberregium is a common basidiomycete in parts of tropical Africa and Australia that fruits from a subterranean true sclerotium. Evidence from field collections suggests that the sclerotia are formed underground. Because its basidiocarps have intercalary skeletal hyphae, P. tuberregium has also been classified in both Lentinus and Panus. We investigated nematode-trapping in P. tuberre...