Study on the mycoflora of Egyptian soils

✍ Scribed by A. H. Moubasher; S. I. Abdel-Hafez

• Book ID: 104781553
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 506 KB
• Volume: 63
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0301-486X
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00473153

✦ Synopsis

Fifty genera and 155 species, in addition to three varieties ofAspergillus nidulans, were isolated from 100 soil samples collected from different localities in Egypt. Aspergillus (33 species in addition to 3 varieties of A. nidulans), Penicillium (46 species), Fusarium (6 species) and Mucor (4 species) were of high occurrence, from which A. niger, A. fumigatus, A. terreus, M. racemosus, P. notatum, P. chrysogenum and A. flavus were dominant. Five genera were of moderate occurrence and these were Humicola, Myrothecium, Rhizopus, Cochliobolus and Alternaria.