Gelatinomyces siamensis gen. sp. nov., incertae sedis within Leotiomycetes, the Siamese jelly-ball, is described. The fungus was collected from bamboo culms and branches in Nam Nao National Park, Phetchabun, Thailand. It presents as a ping-pong ball-sized and golf ball-like gelatinous ascostroma. The asci have numerous ascospores, are thick-walled, and arise on discoid apothecia which are aggre...

Moderately halophilic bacteria are widely distributed in many kinds of fermented foods: for example, strains of Jeotgalibacillus alimentarius were found in jeotgal in Korea (Yoon et al., 2001), Lentibacillus juripiscarius and Lentibacillus halophilus, Tetragenococcus halophilus and T. muriaticus in Thai fi sh sauce (Namwong et al., 2005; Tanasupawat et al., 2006; Thongsanit et al., 2002), Bacil...

HetR gene is a key regulator of heterocyst differentiation in filamentous cyanobacteria. It has been previously isolated and characterized from heterocystous cyanobacterium like Anabaena that has intercalary heterocysts and from non-heterocystous cyanobacteria like Trichodesmium and Symploca PCC 8002. This study reports the characterization of hetR gene from Cylindrospermum stagnale A1345, a cy...