Microbial cellulases are the enzymes widely studied due to their enormous applications in biochemical industry. Among 12 fungal isolates isolated from mangrove plant debris and soil sample collected from Valanthakad Mangroves, Kerala, India, 3 of them were found to exhibit cellulolytic activity. Among them, the most potent isolate which exhibited maximum cellulolytic activity was identified as ...

Fungal laccases are involved in a variety of physiological functions such as delignification, morphogenesis, and parasitism. In addition to these functions, we suggest that fungal laccases are involved in defense mechanisms. When the laccase secreting Trichoderma viride was grown in the presence of a range of microorganisms including bacteria and fungi, laccase secretion was enhanced in respons...

More than 200 recent collections of Trichoderma from China were examined and 16 species belonging to the Viride clade were identified based on integrated studies of phenotypic and molecular data. Among them, seven wood-inhabiting new species, T. albofulvopsis, T. densum, T. laevisporum, T. sinokoningii, T. sparsum, T. sphaerosporum and T. subviride, are found. They form trichoderma- to verticil...

The most common biological control agents (BCAs) of the genus Trichoderma have been reported to be strains of Trichoderma virens, T. harzianum, and T. viride. Since Trichoderma BCAs use different mechanisms of biocontrol, it is very important to explore the synergistic effects expressed by different genotypes for their practical use in agriculture. Characterization of 16 biocontrol strains, pre...

A major part of Trichoderma antifungal system consists of a number of genes encoding for an astonishing variety of secreted lytic enzymes including; e.g. chitinase, cellulases and β-1,3glucanases. The present work aimed to apply the mutagenesis technique in genetically breeding program of the bioagent Trichoderma viride to enhance three effective hydrolytic enzymes in their biocontrol abilities...

1PieviouslyI unlote(l Twave inversions in the l)Iecoldial leads resulting from the intravenous injection of veratrumii viride are (lescribe(l. Evidence is presented that these (changes are not caused either by the hypotensive action of the drug or by myocardial anoxia or by hvpopotassenmia. The T-wave inversions probably. result frnom vmagal stimulation which cause altered ventricular repolariz...