The growth of microorganisms in a synthetic medium is influenced by a number of physical and chemical factors. The nutrient composition of a culture medium plays a most important role in microbial growth (Tortora and Funk, 1995). Fungi grow on diverse habitats in nature and are cosmopolitan in distribution requiring several specific elements for growth and reproduction (Singh and Sharma, 2014)....

NaCl, KCl, or PEG (polyethylene glycol)-amended potato dextrose broth (PDB), and potato dextrose agar (PDA) are essential for pure culture studies of water stress on fungi. Direct information on the actual water potential (WP) of this salt-amended PDB and PDA is lacking. Much fungal research in the past calculated WP of these salt-amended growth media by adding the WP of their constituents take...

Dalbergia odorifera T. Chen is a medium-sized evergreen tree that produces purple-brown heartwood called JiangXiang in traditional Chinese medicine, the formation process of which takes several decades. In this study, a standard culture method was used to isolate fungi from the wounded and normal stems of D. odorifera aiming to investigate the difference between the two types of wood. To charac...

Human placenta-derived adherent cells (PDACs) are a culture-expanded, undifferentiated mesenchymal-like population derived from full-term placental tissue, with immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory, angiogenic, and neuroprotective properties. PDA-001 (cenplacel-L), an intravenous formulation of PDAC cells, is in clinical development for the treatment of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. We t...

Fungal virulence is multifaceted and dependent on multiple factors including the pH of spore suspension. In this study, we accessed effects six values Beauveria bassiana, Metarhizium anisopliae medium for growth, sporulation, mortality sugarcane stalk borer Diatraea saccharalis. The culture fungi was performed onplates containing PDA (Potato Dextrose Agar) medium. Virulence tested in D. sacchar...

Crotalaria juncea (Fabaceae), also known as sunn hemp or Indian hemp, is a warm-season legume grown cover crop that provides nitrogen and organic-matter to soils, prevents weed growth suppresses nematode populations (Meagher et al., 2019). In September 2021, root rot symptoms were observed in fields distributed Cocula, Guerrero, Mexico. Diseased plants showed reduced growth, rot, chlorosis, wil...

fusarium wilt of chickpea, caused by f. oxysporum f. sp. ciceris, is one of the most important diseases of this plant in iran. in order to control this disease, fluorescent pseudomonads were isolated from the rhizosphere of chickpea plants in khorasan province by using king,s b medium (kb). antifungal activity of 80 bacterial strains against f. oxysporum f. sp. ciceris was evaluated on kb and p...

Apple and pear are economically important fruit crops in Germany. Since 2018 many apple trees grown organically Baden-Wuerttemberg (southwestern Germany) developed black cankers on their trunks limbs (Fig. 1). These oval, sunken, brown lesions often next to bark injuries such as cracks, pruning wounds or sun damage. In older cankers, pycnidia sometimes broke through the near canker 2). As infec...