metallic silver nanoparticles have been reduced from silver nitrate by employing the extracellular enzymatic machinery of edible white button mushroom (agaricus bisporus). the physical properties of these particles, size and shapes have been determined using techniques like tem, ftir and xrd and were reported in our earlier report. but, what stands of paramount importance in the present context...

shenavar  o. & mostowfizadeh-ghalamfarsa  r. 2015. computerized interactive keys for identification of fungi. plant pathology science 4(2):41-52 accurate identification of fungi and fungus-like organisms is one of the most important steps for finding an approach to employ or control them. nevertheless, this process is usually laborious and slow. application of interactive keys is one of the way...

Environmental DNA and culture-based analyses have suggested that fungi are present in low diversity and in low abundance in many marine environments, especially in the upper water column. Here, we use a dual approach involving high-throughput diversity tag sequencing from both DNA and RNA templates and fluorescent cell counts to evaluate the diversity and relative abundance of fungi across mari...

I would like to begin this lecture by complimenting the Officers and Council of The Mycological Society of America for their high degree of cooperation and support during my term of office and for their obvious dedication to the welfare of the Society. In addition. I welcome the privilege of expressing my sincere appreciation to the membership of The Mycological Society of America for allowing ...

The effect of AM fungi spatial distribution on individual plant development may determine the dynamics of the whole plant community. We investigated whether clonal plants display, like for other resources, a foraging or a specialization response, to adapt to the distribution of AM fungi. Two separate experiments were done to investigate the response of Glechoma hederacea to a heterogeneous dist...

This research aimed to develop a rapid and nondestructive method to model the growth and discrimination of spoilage fungi, like Botrytis cinerea, Rhizopus stolonifer and Colletotrichum acutatum, based on hyperspectral imaging system (HIS). A hyperspectral imaging system was used to measure the spectral response of fungi inoculated on potato dextrose agar plates and stored at 28°C and 85% RH. Th...

You may not pay much attention to fungi growing on the bark of trees in your neighborhood, but there are many fungal species that scientists know have joined “bark side.” The living do interesting and surprising things. For example, prowl search resources or new habitats. Fungi create tiny versions themselves, called spores, which can use “the force” (of nature, like blowing wind, flowing water...

Fungi occupy a plethora of niches and play essential roles in diverse environments through decomposition of organic material as saprophytes or through establishment of symbiotic relationships with plants and animals that range from mutually beneficial to pathogenic. During colonization of their niches, fungi secrete proteins that include carbohydrate-degrading enzymes to feed on complex molecul...

Members of the genera Phytophthora de Bary and Pythium Pringsheim are economically important “fungal-like-organisms” or “pseudofungi” which have been widely studied throughout the world but their taxonomic treatment has been highly controversial. The production of globose oogonia in the sexual reproduction has placed them in the phylum Oomycota. Although members of Oomycota are similar to all f...

Fungi are eukaryotes that play essential roles in ecosystems. Among fungi, Basidiomycota is one of the major phyla with more than 40,000 described species. We review species diversity from five groups different lifestyles or habitats: saprobic grass/forest litter, wood-decaying, yeast-like, ectomycorrhizal, and plant parasitic. Case studies Agaricus, Cantharellus, Ganoderma, Gyroporus, Russula,...