Published in Annals of Microbiology
During the history of civilizations, advanced wood decay results from exposure to various agents for long periods of time. Bio-deterioration, under the influence of living organisms like fungi, can cause massive damage to historical monuments. In this work, we found that fungi participating in wood degradation share a single strategy for degrading ...
Published in Pharmaceutical Chemistry Journal
The natural cyclopentene β, β'-triketone coruscanone B and its methyl enol ether coruscanone A, metabolites of the higher plant Piper coruscans, in addition to 19 of their simple analogs have been synthesized. The antimicrobial activity of the synthesized compounds against Gram-positive (Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 21027) and Gram-negative (Escheric...
Ce travail a consisté à étudier les potentialités d'un traitement par plasma froid pour des applications antifongiques préventives et curatives du pin maritime. Les traitements sont réalisés par exposition des échantillons à des post-décharges, issues de réacteurs de Décharge à Barrière Diélectrique (DBD). Pour l'aspect préventif, l'objectif a été ...
Published in Experimental eye research
Chemotactic cytokines mediate the recruitment of leukocytes into infected tissues. This study investigated the profile of chemokines during experimental Candida albicans keratitis and determined the effects of chemokine inhibition on leukocyte infiltration and fungal growth during murine keratomycosis. Scarified corneas of BALB/c mice were topicall...
Published in Moscow University Biological Sciences Bulletin
It has been shown that upon cultivation of fungi on a medium containing the organoselenium preparation DAFS-25 in different concentrations the preparation is destroyed, elemental selenium is deposited on the fungal mycelium and acetophenone is accumulated in the medium. A similar reaction leading to elemental selenium and acetophenone production oc...
Se presenta un estudio sobre 66 especies, pertenecientes a las divisiones Myxomycota (21), Ascomycota (29) y Basidiomycota (16), encontradas en la antigua Reserva de la Biosfera El Canal y Los Tiles. De ellas 11 se citan por primera vez para la isla de La Palma, siendo 5 de éstas nuevas para Canarias. Se hacen comentarios taxonómicos sobre algunos ...
In this paper we identify an unexpected DNA sequence from the amplicons of 28S rRNA gene of terrestrial mollusks. DNA extractions were performed from foot tissues of land snails using a modified CTAB protocol. PCRs were carried out with universal primers for COI gene and oligonucleotides designed for molluscs, for the markers 16S rRNA, 28S rRNA, an...
United Kingdom
Aims: To monitor seasonal variations in the microbiology of maize silage and to determine whether the risk of fungal spoilage varies during whole-year storage. Methods and Results: A continuous survey of 20 maize silage stacks was conducted over a period from three to 11 months after ensiling. Filamentous fungi, yeasts and lactic acid bacteria (LAB...
In the present study, a set of 68 P. eryngii wild strains collected from nine locations in northwest and west of Iran along with six commercial strains were studied using universal rice primers (URP). The wild strains were isolated from Ferula ovina, F. haussknechtii, Cachrys ferulacea, Kellusia odoratissima and Smyrniopsis aucheri plant species. E...
