A white-rot fungus, strain SQ01, was isolated from decayed wood in a temperate forest. The strain was identified as a member of genus Trametes, based on the morphological characteristics and a complete sequence analysis of its 18S rRNA gene and ITS region. Strain SQ01 was capable of decolorizing a variety of synthetic dyes, including azo, triphenylmethane, and anthraquinone dyes, with an optima...

The ability of selected bacterial strains and consortia to mineralize degradation intermediates produced by Phanerochaete chrysosporium from 14C-labeled synthetic lignins was studied. Three different molecular weight fractions of the intermediates were subjected to the action of the bacteria, which had been grown on a lignin-related dimeric compound. Two consortia isolated from wood being decay...

Termites have had a long co-evolutionary history with prokaryotic and eukaryotic gut microbes. Historically, the role of these anaerobic obligate symbionts has been attributed to the nutritional welfare of the host. We provide evidence that protozoa (and/or their associated bacteria) colonizing the hindgut of the dampwood termite Zootermopsis angusticollis, synthesize multiple functional β-1,3-...

Cryptococcus neoformans is an encapsulated yeast-like fungus found in avian excreta, soil, and decayed wood [1]. The respiratory tract is the primary route of cryptococcal infection from yeast inhalation, and the infection can disseminate to most other organs [2, 3], although the main target organs are the lungs and the central nervous system (CNS) [4]. The most common manifestations in cases o...

Armillaria sp. F022, a white-rot fungus isolated from decayed wood in tropical rain forest was used to biodegrade anthracene in cultured medium. The percentage of anthracene removal by Armillaria sp. F022 reached 13 % after 7 days and at the end of the experiment, anthracene removal level was at 87 %. The anthracene removal through sorption and transformation was investigated. 69 % of eliminate...

The use of near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy for predicting levels of degradation in southern pine (Pinus spp.) by Gloeophyllum trabeum for periods over 1-8 da was investigated. NIR spectra collected from the center of the radial face of each sample after laboratory soil block decay tests were used to develop calibrations. Calibrations were developed for mass loss, compression strength, and expo...

Guided summarization is essentially an aspect-based multi-document summarization, where aspects can be taken as specified queries in summarization. We proposed a novel ranking algorithm, Decayed DivRank (DDRank) for guided summarization tasks of TAC2011. DDRank can address relevance, importance, diversity, and novelty simultaneously through a decayed vertex-reinforced random walk process in sen...

A portion of the Intergenic Spacer (IGS) of the ribosomal RNA operon of 74 isolates of 11 Ar? millaria species from Europe and North America was amplified using the polymerase chain reaction. Amplifications were made from scrapes of living mycelium without DNA extraction. Alu I digests ofthe amplified product were electrophoresed in agarose and stained with ethidium bromide. With few exceptions...

Dead wood is an important microsite for seedling regeneration in forest ecosystems. Although recent studies have found associations between fungal decay type (white rot and brown rot) both density species composition of regenerating seedlings, its abiotic biotic mechanisms are unknown. In the present study, pot experiments were conducted with seedlings two ectomycorrhizal tree (Abies veitchii B...