This study aims to report the endophytic fungal pathogen Monochaetia monochaeta (Desmazières) Allesch on Quercus robur Linnaeus (English oak) for the first time from Anatolia (Türkiye). The microscopic and macroscopic properties of the fungus, the symptoms it creates in the host plant, and the distribution of the disease in the world are explained. With the new host record revealed by this research, a contribution was made to the Turkish Mycoflora and the scientific world. Additionally, it has been emphasized that fungal diseases can cause serious yield loss and, therefore, significant economic losses in plants worldwide and that much more research should be done on these disease agents and host plants based on systematic and biological control studies.
The aim of our study was to reveal the fungal degradation in the historical monuments in the ancient city of Teos. In the antique city of Teos, which is estimated to exist since the protogeometric period, field studies have been carried out on monuments exposed to fungal deterioration. As a result of the field studies carried out in Teos, it was observed that especially cauliflower-like black microcolonial fungi, caused alteration in historical artifacts. These fungi have been found to cause brown to black coloration, crater-shaped pits, blistering and fracture, and belong to the genera Capnobotryella, Cladosporium, Coniosporium, Lophiostoma, Massarina, Monodyctis, Mycocalicium, Phoma, Phaeococcomyces, Rhinocladiella and Sarcinomyces. The deterioration of historical artifacts is a threat in the ancient city of Teos, as in the whole world. It is necessary to increase both biological diversity and biological control studies in this field.
Fatma AKDENİZ-İlker ÇİNBİLGEL-Hacer BAKIR SERT The entire contents of this journal, Phaselis: Journal of Interdisciplinary Mediterranean Studies, is open to users and it is an 'open access' journal. Users are able to read the full texts, to download, to copy, print and distribute without obtaining the permission of the editor and author(s). However, all references to the articles published in the e-journal Phaselis are to indicate through reference the source of the citation from this journal.
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