objectives: the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of cuminum cyminum (c. cyminum) essential oil on the growth and fum1 gene expression of fumonisin-producing fusarium verticillioides (f. verticillioides) strains isolated from maize. materials and methods: all fungal strains were cultured on potato dextrose agar (pda) slopes at 30°c for 7 days. the antifungal activity was evaluate...

Aspergillus fumigatus is a saprophyte fungus, widely spread in a variety of ecologicalniches and the most prevalent aspergilli responsible for human and animal invasiveaspergillosis. The first step to develop novel and efficient therapies is the identificationand understanding of the key tolerance and virulence factors of pathogens. The mainfocus of the present study is to perform the similarit...

Article Type: Full Length Research Article This research highlighted the production of cellulase enzyme from isolated fungal strains and used this enzyme as potential refining agent in manufacturing security paper from cotton comber pulp. Twenty three fungal strains were isolated from soil samples collected from nearby wood based paper mill and screened for cellulolytic activity by Congo red pl...

BACKGROUND In order to better understand the possible role of fungi in giant panda reproduction and overall health, it is important to provide a baseline for the normal fungal composition in the reproductive system. Using morphology and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequence analysis, we systematically isolated and identified fungal species from the vagina, foreskin, and semen of 21 (11 mal...

Human fungal infections have gained recent notoriety following contamination of pharmaceuticals in the compounding process. Such invasive infections are a more serious global problem, especially for immunocompromised patients. While superficial fungal infections are common and generally curable, invasive fungal infections are often life-threatening and much harder to diagnose and treat. Despite...

The antagonistic interaction between marine fungi and marine bacteria was investigated using 19 bacterial species isolated from marine biofilm and 46 waterborne fungal isolates obtained from Hong Kong waters. Of the 46 fungal isolates, 70% inhibited the growth of at least 1 target bacterial species. Active fungal strains belonged mainly to the genera Cladosporium, Paraphaeosphaeria, Trichoderma...

We report on a reverse line blot (RLB) assay, utilizing fungal species-specific oligonucleotide probes to hybridize with internal transcribed spacer 2 region sequences amplified using a nested panfungal PCR. Reference and clinical strains of 16 Candida species (116 strains), Cryptococcus neoformans (five strains of Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans, five strains of Cryptococcus neoformans...

The Fungal Genetics Stock Center (FGSC) has been described as an Open Source Repository supporting over 50 years of research into some of the most fundamental questions in modern biology. From its origins allied to studies of the nature of genes, through the first efforts to associate DNA sequence with genes, to its current position as a repository for nearly 75 strains with fully sequenced gen...

The diversity of symbiotic fungi associated with the gorgonian coral Echinogorgia rebekka from the Weizhou coral reef in the South China Sea was investigated. Combined with morphologic traits, ITS-rDNA sequences revealed 18 fungal strains from this gorgonian. All of the 18 fungi belonged to the phylum Ascomycota and were distributed among seven genera in five orders: Eurotiales (Aspergillus and...