Open AccessDistribution of osmophilic and halophilic fungi in combine harvester sorghum dust particles from Egypt
Author(s) -
S. I. I. AbdelHafez,
Ahmed A. Abdelhafez,
Mervat Abd El-Fatah Ismael
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
acta mycologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 2353-074X
pISSN - 0001-625X
DOI - 10.5586/am.1989.004
Subject(s) - halophile , cladosporium , halotolerance , penicillium , botany , sorghum , agar , biology , food science , fusarium , bacteria , agronomy , genetics
Fifty-two osmophilic (or osmotolerant) and halophilic (or halotolerant) species and one variety representing 24 genera were encountered from 20 combine harvester sorghum dust samples collected from four Covernorates in Upper Egypt, on 50% sucrose - and 15% NaCl-Czapck's agar at 28°C. The results obtained on the two media were basically similar, but numerous fungi could not tolerate 15% NaCl. The most frequent genera were Aspergillus Eurotium, Penicillium and Cladosporium