Experiments were designed to evaluate the usefulness of antifungal agents and streptomycin for recovering low densities of rhizobia inoculated into tropical soils. The results showed that yeast-mannitol agar (pH 6.0) containing 500 mug of streptomycin, 400 mug of cycloheximide and 50 mug of benomyl or chlorothalonil per ml was the best selective medium.

The Laboulbeniales are a group of obligate parasitic ascomycete fungi that grow on the cuticle of arthropods. Most of the over 2000 species have been described from adult Coleoptera and Diptera, but the genus Herpomyces is found exclusively on cockroaches (Guthrie and Tindall, 1968; Richards and Smith, 1956; Roth and Willis, 1960). The haustoria of Herpomyces penetrate the cuticle of the cockro...

Obligate aerobic AMF taxa have high species richness under waterlogged conditions, but their ecological role remains unclear. Here we focused on AM fungal mediation of plant interactions in a marshland plant community. Five cooccurring plant species were chosen for a neighbor removal experiment in which benomyl was used to suppress AMF colonization. A Phragmites australis removal experiment was...

Methodology was developed to isolate and regenerate protoplasts from the biocontrol fungus Gliocladium virens and to transform them to benomyl resistance with a Neurospora crassa beta-tubulin gene. Southern blots demonstrated that multiple copies of the vector integrated into the chromosomal DNA of stable biotypes but not of abortive transformants. Analysis of nuclear condition in vegetative an...

to investigate the antifungal effects of essential oils of khuzestani savory (satureja khuzistanica jamzad), rechingeri savory (s. rechingeri jamzad), carvacrol and benomyl on botrytis cinerea, this study was carried out in a pda medium, and on grapes, kiwi fruits and strawberry. the experiment was laid out factorially based on a completely randomized design with three replications. the results...

dry bubble disease is one of the most important serious diseases of the cultivated white button mushroom (agaricus bisporus (lange) imbach). it is a cosmopolitan disease having a worldwide distribution. ten isolates of lecanicillium fungicola var. fungicola (preuss) zare and gams were collected from mushroom farms. sensitivity of the isolates to benomyl, carbendazim, carbendazim+iprodione and p...

seed inoculation by means of mycorrhizal fungi can alleviate the side-effects of fungicides on production of crops and their yields. an experiment was conducted in 2009 at the research field of islamic azad university, faculty of agriculture, mahdasht, karaj. in order to investigate the influence of different kinds of fungicides on colonization of mycorrhizal species and on grain yield in soybe...

Isolates of Agaricus bisporus strains F56 and U3 were tested for sensitivity to several selected fungicides in vitro. The analysis showed that flusilasole + carbendazim and cyproconazole + carbendazim were the most toxic fungicides to A. bisporus strain F56 with respective EC50 values of 0.04 and 0.23 mg/l. The least toxic fungicides were carbendazim (EC50 = 16.58 mg/l) and trifloxystrobin (EC5...