Studies on the mycoflora associated with sugarcane factory waste and pollution of River Nile in upper Egypt

Abstract

Sixty-nine species and four varieties that belong to 28 genera of terrestial fungi were recovered from polluted and non-polluted water and mud samples on glucose and cellulose-Czapek's agar at 288C. The most common species from the two substrates on the two types of media were Aspergillus flavus, A. fumigatus, A. niger, Cladosporium cladosporioides, Fusarium oxysporum, Mycosphaerella tassiana and Penicillium chrysogenum. Twenty-six species belonging to 14 genera were isolated from polluted (26 species and 14 genera) and non-polluted (17 species and 10 genera) mud samples on Sabouraud's dextrose agar at 288C. The most prevalent species were Acremonium retiulum, Alternaria alternata, Aspergillus flavus, Aphanoascus fulvescens, A. terreus, Aphanoascus sp., Penicillium funiculosum and Stachybotrys chartarum.