UNLABELLED Alternaria is a ubiquitous fungal genus that includes saprobic, endophytic and pathogenic species associated with a wide variety of substrates. In recent years, DNA-based studies revealed multiple non-monophyletic genera within the Alternaria complex, and Alternaria species clades that do not always correlate to species-groups based on morphological characteristics. The Alternaria co...

anamorphs of pleosporaceae are important plant pathogenic fungi. despite efforts to clarify phylogenetic relationships of this group there is still uncertainty about taxonomic position of some genera. therefor to elucidate relationships among anamorphic form of some pleosporalean taxa, the internal transcribed spacer (its) and rna polymerase second largest subunit (rpb2) of some members were de...

PURPOSE Hypersensitivity to fungi is associated with rhinoconjunctivitis and asthma. For some fungi, such as Alternaria alternata (A. alternata), the symptoms of asthma are persistent, increasing disease severity and the risk of fatal outcomes. There are a large number of species of fungi but knowledge of them remains limited. This, together with the difficulties in obtaining adequate standardi...

Orobanche ramosa (broomrape) is a widespread parasitic weed of many Solanaceouse crop species, such as tobacco or tomato, and attaches to many other species, including ornamentals and weeds. It is mainly distributed in the Mediterranean area, central Europe, northern Africa, and the Middle East (Press and Graves, 1995).Many fungi were isolated from diseased Orobanche plants, and some of them pr...

Urban life has created man-made extreme environments like carwashes. These environments have, however, not been sufficiently explored for mycobiota that can be sources of biotechnologically useful products, as has been the case with natural extreme environments. Using a combination of culture and molecular techniques, fungi from carwash effluents was characterized for production of lipase and c...