Isolation of dematiaceous fungi from a college greenhouse

✍ Scribed by D. M. Dixon

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 124 KB
• Volume: 78
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0301-486X
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00442635

✦ Synopsis

Previous reports have dealt with the isolation and characterization of potentialy pathogenic dematiaceous fungi from nature (1, 2, 3). In those studies, the ubiquity of the organisms in nature was demonstrated; 47-60% of the samples of plant material and soil were positive for representative G-1 species of zoopathogenic dematiaceous fungi using G-2 G-3 animal inoculation techniques. When the Loyola 6-4 College greenhouse and contents recently expe-6-5 rienced overgrowth with demafiaceous molds, the G-6 opportunity was taken to examine sample sources G-7 similar to those collected in nature for the presence 6-8 G-9 of potentially zoopathogenic species.

6-10 The greenhouse contains a variety of herbaceous G-11 and woody plants to supply teaching material for 6-12 general botany classes. Rooted plants are started in G-13 beds containing a 1:1:2 mixture of vermiculite, sand G-14 and potting soil (Baccto Potting Medium, Michi-G-15 gan Peat Co., Houston, TX.