The lichenicolous fungi flora of South Korea is poorly known. During recent field trips to various parts of South Korea and after an extensive examination of herbarium lichen specimens, we encountered a lichenicolous fungi growing over a thallus of the lichen Ochrolechia yasudae Vain., characterized by small black apothecia with mostly three-septate brown ascospores. It was identified as Dactyl...

Piedra, is an asymptomatic fungal infection of the hair shaft, resulting in the formation of nodules of different hardness on the infected hair. The infection also known as Trichomycosis nodularis is a superficial fungal infection arising from the pathogen being restricted to the stratum corneum with little or no tissue reaction. The nodules are a concretion of hyphae and fruiting bodies of the...

Spot blotch is caused by Helminthosporium sativum or H. sorokinianum = Drechslera sorokiniana (Bipolaris sorokiniana). The disease is widespread in Illinois and is believed to lower potential barley yields by 1 to 3 percent; also, the bushel weight. The causal fungus affects all parts of the plant and produces a variety of symptoms, from a seedling blight and root rot to “Black point” of the ke...

A screening of 2300 samples of faeces from humans with and without underlying disease revealed that the black yeast Exophiala dermatitidis is present at a frequency of 5.2 per thousand (n=12). Eight individuals positive for the fungus had diarrhoea at the moment of its isolation, out of 11 where relevant information was available. Judging from repeated isolation over several weeks in one patien...

UNLABELLED PREMISE OF THE STUDY Sequestrate basidiomycete fungi (e.g. "gasteromycetes") have foregone ballistospory and evolved alternative, often elaborate mechanisms of basidiospore dispersal with highly altered basidioma morphology. Sequestrate fungi have independently evolved in numerous Agaricomycete lineages, confounding taxonomic arrangements of these fungi for decades. Understanding ...

In the course of our investigation on bioactive products of Alternaria porri , the causal fungus of black spot disease in the stone− leek and onion, we have reported the isolation of cyclic tetra peptide, tentoxin [cyclo−(L−leucyl−N −methyl−(Z )−dehydrophenylalanyl−glycyl−N −methyl−L−alanyl), 1] [1]. Subsequently, we isolated and identified two tentoxin related cyclic peptide, isotentoxin [cycl...

Purpose The spirits industry is a major economic contributor worldwide, often requiring years of maturation in barrels that associated with significant release ethanol into the surrounding environment. This provides carbon nutrition for colonisation black fungal growths, one type being Baudoinia compniacensis , or Whisky Black. Although growth localised production areas, numerous sites exist gl...