Composition of the fungal flora of Syrian soils

✍ Scribed by S. I. I. Abdel-Hafez; M. I. A. Abdel-Kader; A. I. I. Abdel-Hafez

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 419 KB
• Volume: 81
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0301-486X
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00436821

✦ Synopsis

Fifty-one genera and 146 species in addition to 2 varieties ofA. nidulans and one variety of each of A.flavus and A. terreus were identified from 40 soil samples collected from different places of agricultural soils in Syria on glucose-Czapek's agar at 28 o C.

The most common genera were Aspergillus (26 species + 4 varieties) and Penicillium (36 species) followed by Ulocladium (5 species), Fusarium (6 species), Drechslera (6 species), Mucor (5 species), Rhizopus (3 species) and Stemphylium (1 species) which occurred in 25 100% of the samples comprising 0.47-40.27% of total fungi. From the preceding genera A.