The new species Zanclospora bicolorata, found on a rotten leaf of an unidentified plant in Ecuador, is described and illustrated. The fungus is characterized by setiform bicolored conidiophores and amygdaliform to suballantoid unicellular hyaline conidia.
Beltrania nodulosa, a new species found on a decaying leaf of an unidentified plant in Ecuador, is described and illustrated. The fungus is characterized by cylindricalnodulose conidiophores and primarily monoblastic integrated mostly intercalary nodose conidiogenous cells. Its
solitary and mostly pleurogenous broadly biconic to rhombic conidia are obtuse or rounded at the apex and inconspicuously mammillate at the base below the inconspicuous transverse supra-equatorial hyaline band.
A new anamorphic genus and species Similitrichoconis wongii are described and illustrated. The fungus, found on submerged decaying leaf of an unidentified plant in Ecuador, is characterized by blastic production of obclavate to long fusiform, hyaline phragmoconidia that are
rostrate above, uncinate below, and produced by schizolytic conidial secession of clear to translucent conidiogenous cells.
Food security is a right, but in poor countries such as Ecuador, it becomes a privilege because unemployment, the high cost of the basic family basket and the vital family basket limit access to nutritious food. Pearson’s statistic was applied to determine if there is a correlation between the study variables, where it was obtained that there is a direct linear correlation between the percentage of undernourished people, GDP and unemployment in Ecuador of 0.28 and 0.31 respectively, and a direct inverse relationship with the value of the basic family food basket of -0.87; currently Ecuador has a 12.4% rate of undernutrition compared to its average for the period 2001-2009, which is due to the implementation of the School Food Program in 1999.
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