Terfizia claveryi was examined for in vitro antibacterial activity using the disc diffusion, well diffusion method, minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC). T. claveryi exhibited excellent antibacterial activity against all clinical isolates of corneal ulcer tested, especially against Pseudomonas aeruginosa which showed the maximum antibacterial activ...

terfezia, picoa and tirmania, so called desert truffles, are mycorrhizal fungi mostly endemic to arid and semi-arid areas of the mediterranean region, where they are associated with helianthemum and carexspecies. the aim of this work was to study the identification, molecular analysis, distribution and hosts of these pezizalean hypogeous fungi in iran. among the specimens, terfezia claveryi, ti...

fungi associated with ascocarps of terfezia claveryi, tirmania nivea, t. pinoyi, picoa lefebvrei and p. juniperi in iran showed a wide range of genera and species in 94 samples collected during 2005–2009 from different regions including fars, systan and baluchestan, kerman, east azarbaijan, khuzestan, kermanshah and hormozgan provinces. thirty two species belonging to 21 genera were recovered f...

ABSTRACT- Desert truffles are hypogeous ascomyceteous ectomycorrhizal fungi, occurring in arid and semi-arid ecosystems. A PCR-based method was developed for the identification of 3 major desert truffles of Iran: Terfezia claveryi, Tirmania pinoyi and Tirmania nivea based on internal transcribed spacers of rDNA. Two specific PCR primers were designed for T. claveryi, 4 for T. pinoyi, and 2 for ...

abstract- desert truffles are hypogeous ascomyceteous ectomycorrhizal fungi, occurring in arid and semi-arid ecosystems. a pcr-based method was developed for the identification of 3 major desert truffles of iran: terfezia claveryi, tirmania pinoyi and tirmania nivea based on internal transcribed spacers of rdna. two specific pcr primers were designed for t. claveryi, 4 for t. pinoyi, and 2 for ...

roots of helianthemum species were collected from various rangeland sites in fars, and other provinces in iran. the partial small subunits of ribosomal dna genes were amplified with the genomic dna extracted from their roots by nested polymerase chain reaction (pcr) using the universal fungal primer pair its1/its4 and specific primer pair ftc/rtc, which was designed based on internal transcribe...