Wooded meadows are seminatural plant communities that support high diversity of various taxa. Due to changes in land use, wooded meadows have severely declined during the last century. The dominant trees in wooded meadows acquire mineral nutrients via ectomycorrhizal fungi. Using anatomotyping and sequencing of root tips, interpolation and extrapolation methods, we studied the diversity and com...

Energy constraints have altered consumer practice regarding the use of household washing machines. Washing machines were developed that use lower washing temperatures, smaller amounts of water and biodegradable detergents. These conditions may favour the enrichment of opportunistic human pathogenic fungi. We focused on the isolation of fungi from two user-accessible parts of washing machines th...

PURPOSE Hypersensitivity to fungi is associated with rhinoconjunctivitis and asthma. For some fungi, such as Alternaria alternata (A. alternata), the symptoms of asthma are persistent, increasing disease severity and the risk of fatal outcomes. There are a large number of species of fungi but knowledge of them remains limited. This, together with the difficulties in obtaining adequate standardi...

Background and Purpose: Over the past years, the role of fungi as a cause of nosocomial infections in hospitalized patients has been accentuated. Candida species constitute an important group of fungi causing diseases in immunocompromised patients. Oropharyngeal candidiasis continues to be a prevalent infection in immunodeficient patients. In this study, we aimed to determine the incidence of o...

A rust fungi species, Uromyces euphorbiae Cooke & Peck (Pucciniaceae) on Euphorbia cheiradenia Boiss. Hohen. (Euphorbiaceae) is reported for the first time from Malatya Turkey and also as a new host species fungi. The morphological microscopical features of this are described with figures.

shenavar  o. & mostowfizadeh-ghalamfarsa  r. 2015. computerized interactive keys for identification of fungi. plant pathology science 4(2):41-52 accurate identification of fungi and fungus-like organisms is one of the most important steps for finding an approach to employ or control them. nevertheless, this process is usually laborious and slow. application of interactive keys is one of the way...

The species concept is central to biology and has received considerable debate, yet a universal definition of a species has not found widespread agreement. Much of the discussion has centered on animals and plants, while mycologists and their organisms have generally been peripheral to the debate. A recent symposium dedicated to species concepts in clonal organisms (Mishler and Budd, 1990) did ...

Thermophilic fungi are a small assemblage in mycota that have a minimum temperature of growth at or above 20 degrees C and a maximum temperature of growth extending up to 60 to 62 degrees C. As the only representatives of eukaryotic organisms that can grow at temperatures above 45 degrees C, the thermophilic fungi are valuable experimental systems for investigations of mechanisms that allow gro...

The aim was to investigate the effects of volatile fraction of essential oils from Picea abies, Eucalyptus globulus, Rosmarinus officinalis and volatile fraction of Abies sibirica oil on fungi isolated from apple, leek, carrot, onion. Researches were made in 2008–2009. Tested fungi were as follows: Penicillium roqueforti, Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus flavus var. oryzae, Mortierella hyalina v...