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Fig. 11.20Two common Ascomycota that cause white rots. (a) Xylaria hypoxylon, the “candle snuff” fungus often seen on rotting st ...

fungi might also benefit from the growth of nitrogen- fixing bacteria in wood. The most remarkable feature of white-rot fungi is ...

The other enzymes are involved mainly in generat- ing or transferring oxidants. They include glucose oxidasewhich generates H 2 ...

polymerization into melanin-like pigments. Evidence of this can often be seen where two colonies of wood- decay fungi meet and p ...

Tribe, H.T. (1960) Decomposition of buried cellulose film, with special reference to the ecology of certain soil fungi. In: The ...

Chapter 12 Fungal interactions: mechanisms and practical exploitation This chapter is divided into the following major sections: ...

are not used commercially because of their nonspecific toxicity or other undesirable side-effects. Patulinis one such example (s ...

wheat seedlings. These seedlings had been raised from seeds inoculated with phenazine-producing pseudomonads and grown in pots o ...

Antibiotics and disease control by Trichodermaspecies Trichodermaspecies (Fig. 12.5) are well-known for their ability to antagon ...

Commercial biocontrol formulations of Trichoderma Trichodermaspecies are easily grown in culture media and have been marketed in ...

interactions of fungi from herbivore dung (see Fig. 10.8) and it helps to explain how the Basidiomycota can ultimately dominate ...

pathogens like Heterobasidion, which can colonize from basidiospores and then grow down into the dying roots and infect the adja ...

spore germination, and also containing a dye (bromocresol purple). For application to stump surfaces, the sachets were diluted w ...

membrane (Fig. 12.10). The parasite draws nutrients from the host hyphae, and uses these nutrients to produce sporulating struct ...

of this, the normal hosts are found to be resistant to parasitism if they are grown in liquid culture media, but susceptible whe ...

developed for commercial control of the damaging powdery mildew fungi in glasshouse crops. The host range of Ampelomyces is rest ...

Talaromyces was found to antagonize V. dahliae only when glucose was present in culture media, and not when other common sugars ...

Fig. 12.14Frames from a videotaped sequence when a hypha of Botrytis cinerea(Bc) contacted a hypha of Pythium oligandrum(Po) on ...

plate (Table 12.1). For example, in the top data line of the table, Pythium oligandrumwas detected in 18 (of a total 28) differe ...

10 – 40% of oospores freshly harvested from culture broth will germinate readily, and this value drops to 5% or less when the oo ...