Phyllosphere and Phylloplane Fungi of Banana Cultivated in Upper Egypt and their Cellulolytic Ability

Seasonal variation of air, soil and leaf surface fungi of broad bean and cellulolytic ability in Upper Egypt

“…These findings are almost in agreement with those reported by El-Said et al (2006). They found that F. oxysporum was the highest fungi in producing endo--1,4-glucanses among the 70 tested isolates obtained from 60 samples leaves of Vicia faba.…”

“…The most common fungi of two substrates on the two types of media were: Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus fumigatus, Aspergillus niger, Cladosporium cladosporioides, Cladosporium sphaerospermum and Drechslera neergaardii. The monthly counts of the above fungal species were widely varied and fluctuated irregularly giving maxima during different months (Figures 1 and 2 El-Said et al (2006) found that the most common fungi isolated from 60 samples of leaf surface of broad bean on DCMA and DRBC at 28°C were: Alternaria petroselini, A. citri, Aspergillus flavus, A. niger, C. cladosporioides and C. sphaerospermum. Also, 25 species and one species variety belong to 17 genera from leaf surface of broad bean on dichloranchloram-phenicol-malt extract agar (DCMA) at 28°C and the most common species were A. alternata, C. cladosporioides and C. sphaerospermum.…”

“…Numerous investigations have been carried out on fungal flora of leaf surface, soil fungi and air borne fungi of several plants cultivated in many parts of the world by several researchers (Abdel-Hafez et al, 1990, 2003Blakeman, 1991;Khallil and Abdel-Sater, 1993;ElKholl et al, 1994;El-Said, 1994, 2001El-Said et al, 2006;El-Said and Saleem 2008;Gunasekera, 2004;Moharram et al, 2004Moharram et al, , 2010Murace and Cellitin, 2005;Saleem et al, 2010Saleem et al, , 2013.…”

Ecological and Physiological Studies on Soil Fungi at Western Region, Libya

“…While, sixteen isolates (38.09% of total isolates) were found to be weak cellulolytic activities which comprised for examples: Aspergillus ochraceus , Cochliobolus spicifer , Myrothecium verrucaria , N. haematococca , Setosphaeria rostrata and Ulocladium botrytis and others. Most of the above fungal isolates were reported as cellulase producers, but with variable capabilities by several workers (Abraha and Gashe, 1992; Abdel-Hafez et al, 1995; Moharram et al, 1995, 2004; El-Said, 2001; Berlin et al, 2005). …”

“…They also found that CMC and malt extract were favourable for the enzyme production. The maximum production of exo- and endo-β-1,4-glucanase by C. globosum and Trichoderma viride were after 6 and 8 days of incubation at 25℃ with culture medium containing wheat bran as a carbon source and peptone as nitrogen source and initially adjusted to pH 6 (Abdel-Hafez et al, 1995; El-Said, 2001). Recently, El-Said et al (2006) found that maximum production of endo-β-1,4-glucanase by F. oxysporum could be achieved after 8 days of incubation at 30℃ with the incoporation of carboxymethylcellulose as a carbon source and peptone as nitrogen source in the culture medium which initially adjusted to pH 6.…”