October 2011

Effect of some chemicals on growth, melanogenesis, pathogenicity and metabolic activities of Rhizoctonia solani.

Morphogenesis, cell differentiation, sclerotial formation and melanogenesis of a fungus depend on growth conditions. The present work aims to study the effect of some chemicals on the growth parameters of Rhizoctonia solani, which is the main causal organism of many diseases as damping off disease of many crops such as Phaseolus vulgaris. Different concentrations of hydrogen peroxide H2O2 and...

Author(s): Amany H. Aboellil and Neveen M. Mohammed

October 2011

Biochemical characterisation of two novel laccases from Magnaporthe grisea

Laccases are widely distributed oxido-reductases that catalyse the biological oxidation-reduction of polyphenols with a concomitant reduction of molecular oxygen to water. Genome analysis ofMagnaporthe grisea using bioinformatic approach showed the presence of multiple laccases, which encode proteins with three domains of multicopper oxidase. The transcript levels of all M. grisea laccases were...

Author(s): Kaminee Ranka and Bharat B. Chattoo