Showing papers in "Fungal Biology in 1995"

TL;DR: The fatty acid 16:1 omega 5 from the neutral lipid fraction, containing triglycerides, dominated in soils with mycorrhizal hyphae, and decreased during storage of soils, indicating a decrease in storage lipids.

TL;DR: Endophytic Pezicula strains were isolated from living branches of ten deciduous and coniferous trees and tested for their fungicidal, algicidal and antibacterial activities and the synthesis of these metabolites in 85 isolates was dependent on conditions of culture and was also found to be taxonomically significant.

TL;DR: This listing covers the period May 1, 1997 through to June 30, 1997, which roughly corresponds with the British Mycological Society's Special Interest Committees.

TL;DR: The present study has demonstrated the potential of species of Penicillium as producers of a great diversity of volatile metabolites, likely to be useful in chemosystematics.

TL;DR: A survey for enzymes involved in lignin degradation was carried out from 90 strains of 68 species of different groups of basidiomycetes, and MnP seemed to be restricted to species of Aphyllophorales, with the exception of the tremellaceous fungus Exidia glandulosa.

TL;DR: The chitinolytic system of T. harzianum was found to be more complex than previously reported, consisting of six distinct enzymes, two of which are described here for the first time.

TL;DR: A gene phylogeny of 29 isolates of the G. lucidum complex collected in temperate and subtropical areas was produced by parsimony analysis, showing that extensive convergence or parallelism of morphological characters has occurred during Ganoderma evolution, but also that remarkable morphological difference may occur with little divergence time.

TL;DR: A new basidiomycete Antrodia cinnamomea sp.

TL;DR: The discovery of O. himal-ulmi should help resolve the problem of the origins of Dutch elm disease, while the occurrence of an apparently endemic DutchElm disease system in the Himalayas may present new opportunities for the biological control of the disease elsewhere.

TL;DR: Physiological, epidemiological and genetical properties of an Aphanomyces astaci strain (Pc) isolated from the warm water crayfish, Procambarus clarkii, were compared to other A. astaci strains iso ...

TL;DR: Removal of divalent metal ions from pH buffered solutions by the soil fungi Rhizopus arrhizus and Trichoderma viride has been examined at Cu2+, Cd2+ and Zn2+ concentrations, in the presence and absence of the clay minerals montmorillonite and kaolinite.

TL;DR: Two ubiquitous organic acid-producing soil fungi, Aspergillus niger and Penicillium simplicissimum, were screened for the ability to solubilize eight insoluble metal compounds; zinc phosphate was the least toxic, and was most resistant tosolubilization; ZnO, Zn 3 (PO 4) 2 and Co 3 ( PO 4 ) 2 were selected as test metal compounds.

TL;DR: Even when studying assemblages of species for which direct relationships between ergosterol and biomass occur, ergostol could still be an unreliable measure of total biomass, and this assay must therefore be viewed with caution.

TL;DR: The results support the hypothesis that F. oxysporum f.

TL;DR: A method for extraction of DNA from fungal ascomata, a source of algal-free mycelium, which is effective for the isolation of high-quality DNA from cultured fungi, herbarium specimens and lichens high in polysaccharide content is described.

TL;DR: In freeze-fractures of infected petals, the apices of fungal hyphae caused no apparent deformation of host cell walls during penetration of, or emergence from, the mesophyll cells, indicating that cell wall-degrading enzymes are secreted and retained at the hyphal tip.

TL;DR: A comparison of the level of homologies with and between other species of Colletotrichum indicates that the isolates from maize represent a species distinct from that which contains the isolate obtained from sorghum and Rottboellia.

TL;DR: It is suggested that chitin microfibrils are synthesized at hyphal tips and at other sites by a transmembrane enzyme complex of several polypeptides allosterically regulated by effector molecules but also by local physical stress of the membrane.

TL;DR: The present study is the first to demonstrate that fungal volatile metabolites can be used in detection and classification of fungi at the species level, using more than one isolate of each taxon.

TL;DR: Aphids and flea beetles were differentially susceptible to the same isolates of the entomopathogenic Metarhizium anisopliae, but sites under the elytra of live flea beetle were more vulnerable to infection than sites on the dorsal Elytra or ventral thorax resulting in higher mortalities and lower LT50 values.

TL;DR: The compatibility of endophyte-grass associations was not related to the percentage of successfully inoculated seedlings obtained and this study provides further evidence that the association between Acremonium endophytes and their host grasses is complex.

TL;DR: Pisolithus isolates compared and classified according to basidiospore and basidiome morphology, cultural characteristics and separation of polypeptides indicate that phenotypic analysis of polyPEptide patterns can provide a meaningful classification system to assist in isolate selection for future experiments.

TL;DR: A collection of 39 isolates of Colletotrichum acutatum, C. fragariae and C. gloeosporioides, which cause anthracnose on strawberry, was grouped into species based on the arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction (ap-PCR).

TL;DR: In studies of interactions between the saprotroph, Collybia maculata and the mycorrhizal fungus, P. involutus is significantly retarded, which could detrimentally influence colonization and survival of artificially inoculated tree seedlings when outplanted.

TL;DR: Phylogenetic analysis of the sequence data sets by both parsimony and maximum likelihood methods clearly separated genera and species, and all of the Alternaria species were closely related.

TL;DR: Reproducibility of fingerprint patterns in a standard reaction mixture was achieved, suggesting that particular RAPD fingerprints may be reproduced in any laboratory provided the same set of reaction and thermocycle conditions are used.

TL;DR: Cladistic analyses of partial sequences from the nuclear small subunit ribosomal DNA gene (18S rDNA) demonstrate that species of Exophiala for which telemorphs are unknown and species of Capronia possessing black yeast anamorphs form a monophyletic group within the Ascomycotina.

TL;DR: The rodlet layer could not be removed from intact conidia by boiling in sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) but could be removed with formic acid, and retained hydrophobicity as indicated by a phase exclusion assay.

TL;DR: The most frequently isolated fungi were species of Aspergillus and Fusarium, and Afl-B 1 was the most frequent mycotoxin recorded in almost all the samples beyond the tolerance level fixed by the World Health Organization.

TL;DR: Destructive sampling showed that radioactivity was present in cords and a range of wood and leaf litter components colonized by cord systems, andRadioactivity was also detected in live Fragaria vesca plants and shoots of the moss Hypnum cupressiforme.