Fungi Isolated in Culture from Soils of the Nevada Test Site

Microfungi in Ecosystems: Fungal Occurrence and Activity in Litter and Soil

“…Outside IBP, numerous lists of fungi from desert soils are found in the literature, for example from USA (Ranzoni 1968, Durrell andShields 1960), Israel (Borut 1960), Libya (Youssef 1974), Egypt (Moubasher and El-Dohlob 1970, Moubasher and Moustafa 1970, Moubasher and Mazen 1972, Naguib and Mouchacca 1970, Kharboush et al 1975 and from Sahara (Nicot 1960).…”

Microfungal community associated with rhizosphere soil of Zygophyllum qatarense in arid habitats of Bahrain

“…These fungal taxa were also recorded from similar arid deserts of Arabian Peninsula countries from: halophytic plants ( El-Abyad et al, 1982), rhizosphere soil of tomato (Abdul-Wahid et al, 1997), bare soil; (AbdelHafez et al, 1990;Hashem, 1995), tidal mud flats (Moustafa & Khosrawi, 1983), salt marshes (Moustafa, 1975), truffles (Bokhary et al, 1990), phylloplane of halophytic plants (Fahmy & Ouf, 1999), stored grains of sorghum (Abdullah & Suad, 1987) and sesame seeds (Bahkali & Moslem, 1996). Geographically, many of the fungi reported from this study were also detected in rhizosphere soils of halophytic plants from Europe (Dickinson & Pugh, 1965a, b;Pugh, 1962Pugh, , 1974, Japan (Ito & Nakagiri, 1997a, b), terrestrial habitats of the French Sahara (Nicot, 1960), Sonaran desert (Ranzoni, 1968); Nevada desert (Durrell & Shields, 1960) and Eastern desert of Egypt (Moubasher et al, 1985). Fungi within the genus Cladosporium, Aspergillus and Penicillim are among the most air-borne mycoflora and ranked as cosmopolitan in distribution.…”

Advances in Microbial Ecology

“…In the Great Basin Desert (Curlew Valley), the numbers were between none (1 m depth) and 120,000/g (surface, rainy season) (Skujil].s and West, 1973). Durrell and Shields (1960) isolated 41 fungal species from Mojave Desert soils. The dominant genera were Fusarium, Penicillium, Stemphylium, and Phoma, whereas in Death Valley, the prevalent genera were Aspergillus, Curvularia, and Stemphylium (Hunt and Durrell, 1966).…”