in the course of studies about fungi associated with pistachio (pistacia vera l.) die-back disease in the ghaen region of southern khorasan (iran), one species of geosmithia was found. the isolates were identified as geosmithia lavendula (raper & fennell) pitt based on its morphological and molecular properties. the genus geosmithia (ascomycota: hypocreales) is belonging to mitosporic filame...

background and purpose: the fusarium species are among the most important fungi in the medical, veterinary and agricultural fields. materials and methods: in the present study, 172 strains of these fungi have been analyzed. the high molecular weight dnas were extracted from 23 reference strains as well as from 149 isolated fusarium species. using the designed nucleotide primers from rdna of fus...

a total of ten isolates of fungi with rhizoctonia-like mycelia were obtained from infected roots and stems of pistachio pistacia vera grown in a commercial nursery in rafsanjan, iran, during the autumn of 2011. the infected seedlings showed symptoms of chlorosis that later turned to necrosis. all of the isolates were identified as binucleate rhizoctonia on the basis of hyphal characteristics an...

background:   human fascioliasis is an important health problem in the province of gilan, at the caspian sea, iran. there is the overlapping of both fasciolid species, fasciola hepatica and f. gigantica . recent studies on both domestic animal and lym­naeid infection furnished evidence suggesting that f. gigantica and radix gedrosiana may be the main fasciolid and lym­naeid involved in the dise...

sergentomyia sintoni is the natural vector of sauroleishmania species of lizards. this sandfly isabundance in and around the burrows of great gerbils. s. sintoni was collected from peridomestic animalshelters, inside and around houses and also from the nearby burrows of the gerbil reservoir hosts,rhombomys opimus, in several provinces of iran. mitochondrial cytochrome b (cyt b) of sandflies, wh...

rhizoctonia-like fungi were isolated from the infected roots of miniature rose (rosa hybrida cv. linda) plant with chlorosis and necrosis symptoms, grown in commercial glasshouse in rafsanjan, iran, during the autumn of 2011. all of the isolates were identified as binucleate rhizoctonia sp. on the basis of hyphal characteristics and nuclei number. they were tested for detection of the anastomos...