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A review on metal-based nanoparticles and their toxicity to beneficial soil bacteria and fungi

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2021
The unregulated deposition of metal-based nanoparticles in terrestrial ecosystems particularly in agricultural systems has alarmingly threatened the sustainability of the environment and diversity of beneficial microbial populations such as soil bacteria
Fuad Ameen, Khawla Alsamhary, Jamila A. Alabdullatif, Saleh ALNadhari   +3 more
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Genetic diversity and population differentiation in Earliella scabrosa, a pantropical species of Polyporales

Scientific Reports, 2023
Earliella scabrosa is a pantropical species of Polyporales (Basidiomycota) and well-studied concerning its morphology and taxonomy. However, its pantropical intraspecific genetic diversity and population differentiation is unknown.
Boris Armel Olou, Apollon D. M. T. Hègbè, Meike Piepenbring, Nourou Soulemane Yorou   +3 more
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Altitudinal Variation Influences Soil Fungal Community Composition and Diversity in Alpine–Gorge Region on the Eastern Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

Journal of Fungi, 2022
Soil fungi play an integral and essential role in maintaining soil ecosystem functions. The understanding of altitude variations and their drivers of soil fungal community composition and diversity remains relatively unclear.
Jian Chen, Zuomin Shi, Shun Liu, Miaomiao Zhang, Xiangwen Cao, Miao Chen, Gexi Xu, Hongshuang Xing, Feifan Li, Qiuhong Feng   +9 more
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Effect of Experiment Warming on Soil Fungi Community of Medicago sativa, Elymus nutans and Hordeum vulgare in Tibet

Journal of Fungi, 2023
The uncertainty response of soil fungi community to climate warming in alpine agroecosystems will limit our ability to fully exploit and utilize soil fungi resources, especially in alpine regions.
Zhiming Zhong, Guangyu Zhang, Gang Fu
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New species and a new record of Phylloporia from Benin

Scientific Reports, 2021
Species of the wood-decay genus Phylloporia (Hymenochaetaceae, Hymenochaetales, Basidiomycota) are widely distributed in the tropics. Phylloporia species are, however, morphologically and ecologically diverse, which makes morphology-based species ...
Boris Armel Olou, Nourou Soulemane Yorou, Ewald Langer   +2 more
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Morpho-Molecular Evidence Reveals Four Novel Species of Gymnopus (Agaricales, Omphalotaceae) from China

Journal of Fungi, 2022
Nine collections of gymnopoid fungi were studied based on morpho-molecular characteristics. The macromorphology was made according to the photograph of fresh basidiomata and field notes, while the micromorphology was examined via an optical microscope ...
Ji-Peng Li, Mei-Chen Pan, Yi Li, Chun-Ying Deng, Xiao-Min Wang, Bang-Xi Zhang, Chang-Tian Li, Yu Li   +7 more
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Keratinolytic Fungi in Egyptian Soils [PDF]

Microbiology and Immunology, 1982
AbstractThe frequency of occurrence of keratinolytic fungi in seventy soil samples, collected from different sites in Upper Egypt and in the coastal area of the Mediterranean, was determined by baiting with human and animal hairs and pigeon feathers.Twenty‐one species, in addition to an unidentified species, which belong to sixteen genera were ...
H M, Abdel-Fattah, A H, Moubasher, S M, Maghazy   +2 more
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Tremella fuciformis Polysaccharides Inhibited Colonic Inflammation in Dextran Sulfate Sodium-Treated Mice via Foxp3+ T Cells, Gut Microbiota, and Bacterial Metabolites

Frontiers in Immunology, 2021
Tremella fuciformis is an edible medicinal mushroom, and its polysaccharide components are found to confer various health benefits. This study identified the protective effects of polysaccharides of Tremella fuciformis (TPs) against dextran sulfate ...
Yingyin Xu, Yingyin Xu, Liyuan Xie, Liyuan Xie, Zhiyuan Zhang, Zhiyuan Zhang, Weiwei Zhang, Jie Tang, Jie Tang, Xiaolan He, Xiaolan He, Jie Zhou, Jie Zhou, Weihong Peng, Weihong Peng   +14 more
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Mapping mycological ignorance – checklists and diversity patterns of fungi known for West Africa

IMA Fungus, 2020
Scientific information about biodiversity distribution is indispensable for nature conservation and sustainable management of natural resources. For several groups of animals and plants, such data are available, but for fungi, especially in tropical ...
Meike Piepenbring, Jose G. Maciá-Vicente, Jean Evans I. Codjia, Carola Glatthorn, Paul Kirk, Yalemwork Meswaet, David Minter, Boris Armel Olou, Kai Reschke, Marco Schmidt, Nourou Soulemane Yorou   +10 more
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Immunomodulatory Effect of Flammulina rossica Fermentation Extract on Healthy and Immunosuppressed Mice

Molecules, 2023
Flammulina rossica fermentation extract (FREP) was obtained by ethanol precipitation of the fermentation broth. The molecular weight of FREP is 28.52 kDa, and it mainly contains active ingredients such as polysaccharides, proteins, reducing sugars, and ...
Yingdi Dai, Sijia Ma, Yanyan Zhu, Andrey A. Gontcharov, Yang Liu, Qi Wang   +5 more
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