January 2012

Antimicrobial activity and physicochemical properties of oils from tropical macrofungi

Nutriceutics potential and physicochemical properties of the oil extract from five species of macrofungi which include Ganoderma lucidium, Pleurotus tuberregium, Termytomyces robustus, Schizophyllum commune and Trametes versicolor were investigated using standard chemical and microbiological methods. The oil was extracted using Soxhlet method of extraction. Disc diffusion and agar dilution...

Author(s): David, O. M., Fagbohun, E. D., Oluyege, A. O. and Adegbuyi, A.

January 2012

First qualitative survey of filamentous fungi in Dal Lake, Kashmir

Filamentous fungi comprehend a heterogeneous group of heterotrophic microorganisms that act as saprobes or parasites or, less frequently as symbionts living in association with other organisms. Water samples obtained seasonally from April 2010 to March 2011 at sixteen different sites of Dal Lake, Kashmir were serially diluted five folds followed by spread plate technique for the isolation of filamentous fungi, spreading...

Author(s): Suhaib A. Bandh, Azra N. Kamili, Bashir A. Ganai, Samira Saleem, Bashir A. Loneand Humera Nissa