Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are a group of obligate plant symbionts which can promote plant nutrition. AMF communities are diverse, but the factors which control their assembly in space and time remain unclear. In this study, the contributions of geographical distance, environmental heterogeneity and time in shaping AMF communities associated with Miscanthus giganteus (a perennial grass ...

Negative population feedbacks mediated by natural enemies can promote species coexistence at the community scale through disproportionate mortality of numerically dominant (common) tree species. Simultaneously, associations with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) can result in positive effects on tree populations. Coupling data on seedling foliar damage from herbivores and pathogens and DNA seq...

Melanised fungi were isolated from rock surfaces in the Central Mountain System of Spain. Two hundred sixty six isolates were recovered from four geologically and topographically distinct sites. Microsatellite-primed PCR techniques were used to group isolates into genotypes assumed to represent species. One hundred and sixty three genotypes were characterised from the four sites. Only five geno...

Entomophthoromycota is one of six major phylogenetic lineages among the former phylum Zygomycota. These early terrestrial fungi share evolutionarily ancestral characters such as coenocytic mycelium and gametangiogamy as a sexual process resulting in zygospore formation. Previous molecular studies have shown the monophyly of Entomophthoromycota, thus justifying raising the taxonomic status of th...

The ability of Bacillus subtilis, strain ALICA to produce three mycolytic enzymes (chitinase, β-1,3-glucanase, and protease), was carried out by the chemical standard methods. Bacillus subtilis ALICA was screened based on their antifungal activity in dual plate assay and cell-free culture filtrate (25%) against five different phytopathogenic fungi Alternaria alternata, Macrophomina sp., Colleto...

Hazelnut husk brown rot has been identified as a new disease in Liaoning Province recent years. The objective of this study to identify the pathogen. [Method] In study, standard sample hazelnut was collected from Songmudao Base Dalian City, Province. pathogen by studies morphology, pathogenicity, and analyses ITS LSU sequences. isolated purified, which confirmed Koch’s postulates. symptoms afte...

Pollution of the soil environment with toxic materials from fossil burning, mining and smelting of metalliferous ores, disposal of sewage, fertilizers and pesticides, etc. has increased dramatically since the onset of industrial revolution. Various strategies including bioremediation and phytoremediation are employed to remove heavy metals from such soils and making them available for agricultu...

Filamentous fungi are of special interest for the production of various economically important metabolites. Up to now only a limited number of microfluidic systems for handling fungal organisms have been reported. Here a simple and disposable microfluidic chip-system for high-throughput growth and morphogenesis studies of filamentous fungi is presented. The device enables trapping of multiple s...

Species in the genus Gliocephalotrichum (= Leuconectria) (Hypocreales, Nectriaceae) are soilborne fungi, associated with post-harvest fruit spoilage of several important tropical fruit crops. Contemporary taxonomic studies of these fungi have relied on morphology and DNA sequence comparisons of the internal transcribed spacer region of the nuclear rDNA (ITS) and the β-tubulin gene regions. Empl...

The parasitic nature of viruses is a source of intense interest owing to the wide variety of potential hosts, which include humans, livestock, fungi, agricultural crops, as well as many others [1]. Viruses are differentiated by variations in properties such as size, capsid morphology, genomic composition, replication strategy, and host target [1, 2]. The family Totiviridae of dsRNA viruses is c...