Avicennia marina (Tamil : Alai : Alai atti) : Avicennia marina is the dominant mangrose species in Karankadu and accounts for about 95% of the vegetative cover plant in Indian Sub-continent was investigated for endophytic mycoflora as a possible source of bioactive secondary metabolites. Being salinity resistant, this species dominate most mangrove area of the country including karankadu. Four ...

Feeding of fluorinated benzoic acids to fermentations of a Phoma sp. resulted in the biosynthesis of a series of novel fluorinated squalestatins. The feeding studies, isolation, structural elucidation and biological activities of these compounds are reported.

Fungal root endophytes obtained from natural vegetation were tested for antifungal activity in dual culture tests against the root pathogen Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici. Fifteen isolates, including Acremonium blochii, Acremonium furcatum, Aspergillus fumigatus, Cylindrocarpon sp., Cylindrocarpon destructans, Dactylaria sp., Fusarium equiseti, Phoma herbarum, Phoma leveillei, and a steri...

Mal secco disease is a vascular pathogen causing serious damage and death to the host, particularly lemon, in Citrus and related genera, in Mediterranean countries and the Black Sea region. So far, however, it is unknown in Spain, Portugal and Morocco, as well as other major Citrus-growing regions of the world. Symptoms include red strands visible in stem xylem as well as veinal chlorosis, wilt...

conclusions phoma glomerata pg41 strain sharing natural substrate with toxigenic a. flavus secretes metabolites possessing a significant aflatoxin-degrading activity. the activity is associated mainly with a protein-enriched high-molecular-weight fraction of extracellular metabolites and appears to be of enzymatic origin. results the afb1-degrading activity of protein-enriched fractions, isolat...

Abstract Blackleg (stem canker) of crucifers is a globally important disease caused by multiple genetic subclades the fungi Plenodomus lingam (syn.: Leptosphaeria maculans ) and biglobosus biglobosa ). In our study, we monitored geographical distribution these two pathogen species from rapeseed growing areas in Hungary. Multiplex PCR identified 48.7% isolates as , which indicates non-recent int...

We generalize Shimizu et al’s (2006) ICA-based approach for discovering linear non-Gaussian acyclic (LiNGAM) Structural Equation Models (SEMs) from causally sufficient, continuous-valued observational data. By relaxing the assumption that the generating SEM’s graph is acyclic, we solve the more general problem of linear non-Gaussian (LiNG) SEM discovery. In the large sample limit, LiNG discover...