the addition of cottonwood and ash sapwood powder to ypssl2 medium influenced the mycelial growth of 13 species of freshwater lignicolous ascomycetes and hyphornycetes. these species fall into three groups with respect to their responses to the presence of leached or non-leached wood powder. neither wood type showed strong inhibitory effect on the mycelial growth of the species. leaching did no...

We demonstrate the use of micromechanical cantilever arrays for selective immobilization and fast quantitative detection of vital fungal spores. Micro-fabricated uncoated as well as gold-coated silicon cantilevers were functionalized with concanavalin A, fibronectin or immunoglobulin G. In our experiments two major morphological fungal forms were used--the mycelial form Aspergillus niger and th...

Twenty isolates of Bacillus species obtained from livestock manure composts and cotton-waste composts were tested for their antagonistic effects in vitro against three green mold pathogens of mushrooms (Trichoderma harzianum, T. koningii, and T. viridescens). However, there exists a possibility Bacillus species may have antagonistic effects against mushrooms themselves, and thus the same 20 iso...

Introduction The mycelium of woodland fungi can act both as a reservoir and as a distribution system for nutrients, owing to its physiological and developmental adaptations to life at the interface between organic and mineral soil horizons. The mobility of accumulated nitrogen and phosphorus within the mycelial networks of cord-forming wood decay fungi and ectomycorrhiza enables fungi to play k...

Actinobacteria from the genus Streptomyces have been studied as potential biocontrol agents worldwide. In this study, a total of 35 isolates of Actinomycete like colonies were isolated from the rhizospheres of various plant species. These isolates were primary screened for antagonistic activity to inhibit mycelial growth of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides. The screen revealed that seven isolates...

In this work, the effects of medium composition and fermentation parameters on the simultaneous production of mycelial biomass and exopolymer by medicinal mushroom Hericium erinaceus CZ-2 were investigated in shake flask cultures using one-factor-at-a-time method and orthogonal array design. Results showed that the most suitable carbon, nitrogen, mineral sources, and cofactors for the mycelial ...

Mycelial and yeast-phase culture filtrates prepared from three strains of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis exhibited equal reactivity in sensitized guinea pigs. Ethyl alcohol-precipitated fractions obtained from the culture filtrates also showed no difference in reactivity between mycelial and yeast phase when tested in sensitized guinea pigs. Chemical analyses of the ethyl alcohol-precipitated fr...

Rapid methods are needed for detection of molds in foods; therefore, an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was developed. The extracellular and mycelial antigens for Mucor, Aspergillus, Cladosporium, and Geotrichum species were partially purified and characterized. The molecular masses of the mycelial and extracellular antigens, as determined by size exclusion chromatography, ranged from 4.5 x 1...

The present study evaluated the anti-cell proliferation properties of edible basidiomycetes mushroom fungi against human breast cancer MCF-7 cell lines. The cells were treated with Dichloromethane (DCM) mycelial extracts of the mushroom fungi at different concentrations. Cytotoxic studies on the breast cancer cell lines (MCF -7) showed the anti-cell proliferation activity of DCM mycelial extrac...