What is the relationship between reproduction and decomposition in fungi?

I want to know if sexual reproduction in fungi relates to their decomposing abities

09 October 2016 572 3 View

What aspergillus species is this?

Fungus isolated from soil and grown on pda.

03 April 2016 2,835 9 View

Please what fungi species are these?

I isolated the on PDA in leaf litter samples. at the moment i cant see any clear spores, or conidiophore under the microscope. I am culturing them on water agaar to induce sporulation

03 April 2016 602 8 View

What Penicillium species is this?

I isolated this species on PDA from leaf litter

03 April 2016 3,219 17 View

Please has anyone seen these fungi before?

I need help to identify these fungi I isolated from the soil. I grew them on PDA

02 March 2016 7,735 13 View

Does anyone know where i can get this manual: rapper and fennell- the genus aspergillus?

I have been looking for this manual for a very long time but I can't sem to find it anywhere. Please help. Thanks

02 March 2016 2,528 2 View

Isolates of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus?

Dear Dr. Cai, my name is Simone Prospero and I work in the team of Phytopathology at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research (WSL;...

01 March 2021 1,133 1 View

How to remove the residual PDMS on the silicon mold?

Incompletely cross-linked pdms are difficult to remove.

01 March 2021 798 3 View

The reason that the culture of white fungi Contamination with green mold(Trichoderma), the culture autoclave at121 for 15 min. What is it?

Is the period to autoclave not enough? The inoculation in a hood and flame and UV and alcohol.

27 February 2021 9,356 3 View

What is the most suitable medium of ascomycetes fungi ??

What is the most suitable medium of ascomycetes fungi ??

26 February 2021 4,413 1 View

Has anyone used the Illumina ITS1 primer sets?

Hi everyone, Illumina provides a list of primers to amplify with high taxonomic coverage the ITS1 region for further fungal sequencing, but I cannot find the exact amount necessary of each...

25 February 2021 6,969 3 View

Can 5-FOA Diffuse Through Agar?

I am preparing to do a gene knockout in the filamentous fungi Coccidioides posadasii targeting pyrG/URA3 so that 5-FOA can be used for selection pressure instead of traditional antibiotic...

16 February 2021 169 4 View

Any specific reason, how sclerotium rolfsii can grow out of Petridish?

Is it related to nutrition or any other reason? Any other fungus have similar kind of growth pattern?

09 February 2021 4,357 4 View

Where can I find Plasmopara viticola?

Hello everyone, For my research I want to infect Vitis Vinifera leaves with downy mildew-causing fungus Plasmopara viticola. Does anyone know where I could find or purchase this fungi? I am...

04 February 2021 5,720 3 View

How to store Fusarium oxysporum for long period in simple methods ?

31 January 2021 1,832 17 View

Cutoff for asv reads?

I got my fungi sequences back from Illumina Miseq sequencing and I'm wondering how many reads do you use as a cutoff? ie. do you delete anything with less than 100 reads? I can't seem to find any...

28 January 2021 5,646 4 View