Open AccessHalalophilc and halotolerant fungi in cultivated dessert and salt marsh soils from Egypt
Author(s) -
A. H. Moubasher,
S. I. I. AbdelHafez,
M. M. K. Bagy,
M. A. Abdel-Satar
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.1990.013
Subject(s) - halotolerance , halophile , penicillium , halophyte , botany , biology , salt marsh , sodium , aspergillus , soil salinity , salinity , food science , chemistry , ecology , bacteria , genetics , organic chemistry
One hundred halophilic and halotolerant species in addition to 3 varieties belonging to 27 genera were collccted from 25 samples of cultivated desert and saline soils from different habitats in Egypt on 5-25%. NaCl-Czapek's agar at 28°C(±2°C>. The results reveal that there were no chancteristic halophilic and halotolerant fungi of these various types of soils. The growth of all recovered fungi was tested in medi containing 5-25% sodium chloride. Almost all halophilic fungi (growing better on 5-25% than on O% sodium chloride) were Aspergillus species. Most of the highly and fairly halotolerant fungi were Aspergillus and Penicillium species. All test fungi were halophilic or halotolerant