April 2011

Gasteroid mycobiota of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: Boletales

Boletales is an order of the subclass Phallomycetidae, which comprises of a wide variety of morphological types of macrofungi, including the boletes and earthballs. In this paper, the gasteroid members of the Boletales from Rio Grande do Sul State, in southern Brazil, were revised. Specimens were collected during the years 2006 to 2009, analyzed macro and microscopically and the collections are preserved...

Author(s): Vagner G. Cortez , Iuri G. Baseia and Rosa Mara B. Silveira

April 2011

In vitro antimicrobial studies of Nodulisporium specie: An endophytic fungus

Nodulisporium sp. an endophytic fungus identified by 28s ribosomal gene sequencing isolated from a medicinal plant, Nothapodytes foetida was studied for its in vitro antimicrobial activity. Dual culture studies were carried out for antifungal activity where maximum antagonistic activity was against Alternaria alternata and Colletotrichum gleosporoides. For antibacterial...

Author(s): S. Rehman, Tariq Mir, A. Kour, P. H. Qazi, P. Sultan and A. S. Shawl

April 2011

Occurrence and identification of yeast species isolated from Egyptian Karish cheese

This study aims at identifying the diversity and abundance of yeast associated with Egyptian Karish cheese, employing comparison between conventional laboratory techniques and API20 kits techniques in yeast identification. A total of one hundred samples (fifty each) of Egyptian raw and pasteurized Karish cheese milk were randomly collected from farmers and markets in Cairo and Giza Districts. The occurrence of yeast in...

Author(s): Neveen S. M. Soliman and Salwa A. Aly