Biodiversity of phylloplane and endophytic fungi have been considered as one of the rich source of novel natural compounds of biological activities and a high level of structure diversity on the leaf surfaces. Bioactive components produced by phylloplane and endophytes have shown promising potentiality towards human health. In this juncture, it is necessary to understand and manipulate this imp...

Surfactant proteins A (SP-A) and D (SP-D) are thought to play important roles in pulmonary host defense. We investigated the interactions of rat and human SP-A and SP-D with Aspergillus fumigatus conidia. Rat SP-D but not rat SP-A bound the conidia, and the binding was inhibited by EDTA, mannose, glucose, maltose, and inositol. Binding studies using a mutant recombinant rat SP-D with altered ca...

The number and types of microorganisms in the gut of Culex quinquefasciatus larvae varied considerably from one site of collection to another. Larval gut, in general, contained enormous number of bacteria, a few fungi and negligible number of actinomycetes which belonged to 15 bacterial, 6 fungal and 4 actinomycete genera, respectively. Bacillus sp., Staphylococcus sp. and Pseudomonas sp. among...

Numerous species of filamentous fungi were isolated from lemon on different plantations in the province of Tucuman, Argentina. The techniques suggested by the Subcommittee of Antifungal Susceptibility of the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards, (USA) were adapted. The effect of three different concentrations of the fungicides imazalil, guazatine, SOPP and thiabendazole on the f...

Siderophores of six fungi viz. Aspergillus sp. ABp4, Aureobacidium pullulans, Penicillium oxalicum, P. chrysosporium, Mycotypha africana and Syncephalastrum racemosum were examined for their (1) electrophoretic mobilities to determine the acidic, basic or neutral charge; (2) Fe (III) binding nature viz., mono-, di-, or trihydroxamate; (3) amino acid composition; and (4) NMR (nuclear magnetic re...

Peanut pods are easily infected by aflatoxin-producing Aspergillus sp.ecies from field soil. To assess the aflatoxin-producing Aspergillus sp. in different peanut field soils, 344 aflatoxin-producing Aspergillus strains were isolated from 600 soil samples of four agroecological zones in China (the Southeast coastal zone (SEC), the Yangtze River zone (YZR), the Yellow River zone (YR) and the Nor...

Placentas and foetuses from 1107 bovine abortions were examined and a fungal infection was diagnosed in 131 instances. Fungi seen in silver impregnated sections of tissues could be placed into 3 categories designated aspergillus, phycomycete and atypical. Culture indicated that the first 2 of these categories were due to Aspergillus sp and Mortierella wolfii respectively. The infections in the ...

The fungi on Meju are known to play an important role as degrader of macromolecule of soybeans. In order to elucidate the origin of fungi on traditional Meju, mycobiota of the air both inside and outside traditional Meju fermentation rooms was examined. From 11 samples of air collected from inside and outside of 7 Meju fermentation rooms, 37 genera and 90 species of fungi were identified. In ou...