The order Mucorales comprises predominantly fast-growing saprotrophic fungi, some of which are used for the fermentation of foodstuffs but it also includes species known to cause infections in patients with severe immune or metabolic impairments. To inventory biodiversity in Mucorales ITS barcodes of 668 strains in 203 taxa were generated covering more than two thirds of the recognised species....

Some 340 isolates belonging to Mucorales, obtained from rhizosphere of root knot nematode host plants in ChaharMahal & BakhtiariProvince, were studied during 2003-5. Fourteen new taxa, namely, Absidia spinosa, Actinomucor elegans, Cunninghamella echinulata var. echinulata, C. echinulata var. nodosa, C. echinulata var. verticillata, Mucor circinelloides f. circinelloides, M. circinelloides f. lu...

When stimulated by equivalent amounts of progametangia-inducing hormones, cultures of the minus mating type of Blakeslea trispora produce about the same quantities of carotenoids as mated cultures of the fungus, which suggests that the stimulation of carotene synthesis during the sexual activity of mated cultures is the result of hormonal action. These hormones were isolated and purified. From ...