some fungal species were isolated from scab or scab-like symptoms on leaves of various plant hosts in iran. some of them isolated from apple and pear leaves were investigated in the present study. the isolates were identified based on the morphological and cultural characteristics. on the other hand, for molecular identification and phylogenetic analyses were carried out based on the sequence o...

Abstract The Urmia Lake National Park (NW Iran) represents a unique ecosystem owing to special ecological conditions prevailing the region. The Urmia Lake National Park comprises a range of normal to extreme environments, with variable range of salinity between 120-300 g/L. The present study was aimed to characterize ascomycetous yeast mycobiota inhabiting hypersaline soils in this region. Soi...

Five smut fungi viz. Microbotryum scorzonerae on Scorzonera caliculata, Sporisorium aristidae-lanuginosae on Stipagrostisplumosa, Sporisorium desertorum on Lasiurus sindicus, Sporisorium foveolati on Dichanthium foveolatum,and Sporisorium vanderystii on Hyparrhenia hirta are reported for the first time for Iranian mycobiota. Sporisorium foveolati is also probably new to Asia. Bellevalia saviczi...

Some fungal species were isolated from scab or scab-like symptoms on leaves of various plant hosts in Iran. Some of them isolated from apple and pear leaves were investigated in the present study. The isolates were identified based on the morphological and cultural characteristics. On the other hand, for molecular identification and phylogenetic analyses were carried out based on the sequence o...

Arasbaran is one of the most important protected regions in Iran located in NW of the country and east of E Azarbaijan Province. Several reports have been published on the mycobiota of this region however there is only few records about rust fungi of Arasbaran. Our research on rust fungi of Arasbaran region get started since 2006. During this study, several rust taxa collected and identified fr...

In the present study, four species of Bipolaris viz. B. salkadehensis, B. coicis, B. ellisii, and B. maydis and two species of Curvularia viz. C. tuberculata and C. comoriensis were isolated and identified from different poaceousspecies. Bipolaris coicis on Coix lacryma-jobi, B. ellisii on Zea mays, C. tuberculata on Oryza sativa, Sorghum bicolor, Cyperus rotundus and C. comoriensis on Oryza sa...

In the present study, nine species of Aspergillus, viz., A. alliaceus, A. ochraceus, A. persii, A. leproris, A. parasiticus, A. fumigatiaffinis, A. sydowii, A. niger, A. tubingensis and Eurotium amstelodami were obtained and identified from soils of the National Park of Urmia Lake, based on cultural and morphological characteristics. All of the species are newly recorded from hypersaline soils ...

In this paper, five species of the agaric fungi viz., Entoloma griseoluridum, E. niphoides, Limacella ochraceolutea, Mycena clavicularisand M. acicula belonging to family Amanitaceae, Entolomataceae and Mycenaceae, are reported for the first time for Iranian mycobiota. Limacella ochraceolutea is the first species of fungi belonging to genus Limacella in Iran.Because L. ochraceolutea is a rare s...

sooty molds are a group of fungi with dark-coloured hyphae, which grow saprophytically on various living plant organs and sometimes on non-living substrates and produce brown to black superficial colonies, black pellicles or pseudoparenchymatous crust. in north of iran including guilan and mazandaran provinces, sooty molds are common on living leaves of a great variety of plants especially citr...