Anti-fungal activity of Ardisia crispa (Thunb.) A.DC. against several fungi responsible for athlete's foot by Somchit, Muhammad Nazrul, Adam, Yunus, Yee, Hee Chong, Ahmad, Zuraini, Abdul Kadir, Arifah, Zakaria, Zainul Amiruddin

“…The body normally hosts a variety of saprotrophic micro-organisms that may cause infection. …”
Get full text

Conversion of peat swamp forest to oil palm cultivation reduces the diversity and abundance of macrofungi by Rajihan, Siti Noor Shuhada, Salim, Sabiha, Nobilly, Frisco, Lechner, Alex Mark, Md Sharif, Badrul Azhar

“…The abundance of terricolous saprotrophic fungi was determined principally by habitat type, substrate richness, and relative air humidity. …”
Get full text

Pest categorisation of Davidsoniella virescens by EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH), Michael Jeger, Claude Bragard, David Caffier, Thierry Candresse, Elisavet Chatzivassiliou, Katharina Dehnen‐Schmutz, Gianni Gilioli, Jean‐Claude Gregoire, Josep Anton Jaques Miret, Alan MacLeod, Maria Navajas Navarro, Björn Niere, Stephen Parnell, Roel Potting, Trond Rafoss, Vittorio Rossi, Gregor Urek, Ariena Van Bruggen, Wopke Van der Werf, Jonathan West, Stephan Winter, Johanna Boberg, Paolo Gonthier, Marco Pautasso

“…The fungus is also reported as a saprotroph on various hardwood species. The pest could enter the EU via wood, plants for planting and cut branches. …”
Get full text

Fungal Composition and Diversity of the Tobacco Leaf Phyllosphere During Curing of Leaves by Qian-Li Chen, Qian-Li Chen, Lin Cai, Han-Cheng Wang, Liu-Ti Cai, Paul Goodwin, Jun Ma, Feng Wang, Zhong Li

“…The most common fungal species isolated was the pathogen, R. oryzae, that was most often found equally on petioles and laminas in the color-fixing stage, followed by saprotrophs, mostly Aspergillus spp. High-throughput sequencing revealed saprotrophs with Alternaria being the most abundant genus, followed by Phoma, Cercospora, and Aspergillus, whereas Rhizopus was the tenth most abundant genus, which was mostly found on petioles at the yellowing stage. …”
Get full text

DEPENDENCE OF GRIFOLA FRONDOSA EFFICIENCY ON PARTICLE SIZE OF LIGNOCELLULOSE SUBSTRATE by Minakov D.V., Sevodina K.V., Shadrintseva A.I., Sevodin V.P.

“…The article is devoted to the actual problem of utilization of lignocellulose waste of woodworking industry and their use as substrates in the production of fruit bodies of saprotrophic fungi. The aim of the research was to study the efficiency of G. frondosa (Diks: Fr) Gray, cultivated on lignocellulose substrates with various degrees of grinding. …”
Get full text

Evidence for Lignocellulose-Decomposing Enzymes in the Genome and Transcriptome of the Aquatic Hyphomycete <i>Clavariopsis aquatica</i> by Felix Heeger, Elizabeth C. Bourne, Christian Wurzbacher, Elisabeth Funke, Anna Lipzen, Guifen He, Vivian Ng, Igor V. Grigoriev, Dietmar Schlosser, Michael T. Monaghan

“…Fungal lignocellulose degradation is prominent in saprotrophic Ascomycota and Basidiomycota of the subkingdom Dikarya. …”
Get full text

Effects of Bamboo Forest Type and Density on the Growth of <i>Bletilla striata</i> and Root Endophytic Fungi by Hao Fu, Zhilin Song, Shanmin Li, Siren Lan, Xinhua Zeng, Weichang Huang

“…The abundance of symbiotroph fungi was the highest in <i>P. edulis</i> and <i>P. iridescens</i> forests and greatly varied with density gradient, and saprotrophic fungi comprised the highest proportion in the <i>Ph. glauca</i> forest. …”
Get full text

Salt altered rhizosphere fungal community and induced soybean recruit specific species to ameliorate salt stress by Ming Yuan, Di Zhang, Zhen Wang, Zhijia Zhu, Haoyue Sun, Wei Wang, Dezhi Han, Zhongcheng Qu, Bo Ma, Junqiang Wang, Lianxia Wang, Dongwei Han

“…An increase of fungal taxa with predicted saprotrophic lifestyles might help promoting plant growth by increasing nutrient availability to the plants. …”
Get full text

A genome survey of <it>Moniliophthora perniciosa </it>gives new insights into Witches' Broom Disease of cacao by Bailey Bryan A, Guiltinan Mark J, Barbosa Luciana V, Neto Aristóteles, Neto José, Gonçalves Marilda S, Gramacho Karina P, Castro Luis AB, de Moraes Marcos H, Araújo Marcos, Rio Maria, Pires Acássia BL, de Oliveira Bruno V, Thomazella Daniela PT, García Odalys, Estrela Raíssa C, Vidal Ramon O, Carrer Helaine, Cunha Anderson F, Carraro Dirce M, Cotomacci Carolina, Rincones Johana, Parizzi Lucas P, Formighieri Eduardo F, Costa Gustavo GL, Carazzolle Marcelo F, Mondego Jorge MC, Meinhardt Lyndel W, Cascardo Julio CM, Pereira Gonçalo AG

“…It is a hemibiotrophic pathogen that colonizes the apoplast of cacao's meristematic tissues as a biotrophic pathogen, switching to a saprotrophic lifestyle during later stages of infection. …”
Get full text

Distinctive metabolites of Alternaria, Fusarium and Microdochium fungi as a tool for assessing their relationship in micobiota of wheat grain by T. Yu. Gagkaeva, O. P. Gavrilova, A. S. Orina, I. B. Ablova, L. A. Bespalova

“…The high variation of contents of marker metabolites inherent in highly aggressive species of fungi and the stability of these parameters for saprotrophic organisms can be of fundamental importance in the selection of objective for quantitative measurements of plants resistant to pathogens. …”
Get full text

COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE SUCCESSION DYNAMICS OF WOOD FRACTIONS OF SPRUCE FORESTS OF THE SOUTHERN TAIGA by V. G. Storozhenko

“…Wood-destroying fungi of the saprotrophic complex “adjust” the activity of the decomposition process of wood decay to the dynamics of wood accumulation by the stand, maintaining the balance of accumulation and decomposition of woody biomass in the forest community. …”
Get full text

Dead or Alive; or Does It Really Matter? Level of Congruency Between Trophic Modes in Total and Active Fungal Communities in High Arctic Soil by Magdalena Wutkowska, Magdalena Wutkowska, Anna Vader, Sunil Mundra, Elisabeth J. Cooper, Pernille B. Eidesen

“…The proportion of symbiotrophic, saprotrophic and functionally unassigned reads differed between rDNA and rRNA, but showed similar trends. …”
Get full text

Microbial community composition in the dung of five sympatric European herbivore species by Xingzhao Sun, Judith Sitters, Joske Ruytinx, Martin J. Wassen, Harry Olde Venterink

“…FUNGuild analysis showed that horse dung had more saprotrophic fungi, while the fungi in fallow deer dung had more symbiotrophic properties, with the fungal functions of bison, cow, and rabbit dung somewhere in between. …”
Get full text

Early Effects of Fertilizer and Herbicide Reduction on Root-Associated Biota in Oil Palm Plantations by Aisjah R. Ryadin, Dennis Janz, Dominik Schneider, Aiyen Tjoa, Bambang Irawan, Rolf Daniel, Andrea Polle

“…Since the responsive ecological groups were represented by low sequence abundances, their responses were masked by very high sequence abundances of saprotrophic and pathotrophic fungi. Thus, the composition of the whole root-associated community was unaffected by reduced management. …”
Get full text

Uneven distribution of prokaryote-derived horizontal gene transfer in fungi: a lifestyle-dependent phenomenon by Fei Liu, Shi-Hui Wang, Ratchadawan Cheewangkoon, Rui-Lin Zhao

“…Our findings highlight that fungal lifestyle traits, such as being parasitic or saprotrophic, play a key role in determining the extent of HGT, with parasites showing the highest gene acquisition rates. …”
Get full text

Seasonal and Spatial Dynamics of Fungal Diversity and Communities in the Intertidal Zones of Qingdao, China by Wei Li, Qi Li, Zhihui Pan, Gaëtan Burgaud, Hehe Ma, Yao Zheng, Mengmeng Wang, Lei Cai

“…Predicted trophic modes of fungal taxa exhibited a seasonal pattern with an abundance of saprotrophic fungi in the summer sediments, positively correlating to the temperature, while the taxa affiliated with symbiotroph and pathotroph-saprotroph occurred abundantly in the winter and spring sediments, respectively. …”
Get full text

Inoculum Sources Modulate Mycorrhizal Inoculation Effect on <i>Tamarix</i> <i>articulata</i> Development and Its Associated Rhizosphere Microbiota by Karima Bencherif, Frédéric Laruelle, Yolande Dalpé, Anissa Lounès-Hadj Sahraoui

“…Soil microbial biomasses increased significantly with indigenous mycorrhizal inoculum in the most saline soil with 46% for AMF, 25% for saprotrophic fungi and 15% for bacterial biomasses. (4) Conclusion: Present results open the way towards the preferential use of mycorrhizal inoculum, based on native AMF, to perform revegetation and to restore the saline soil microbiota.…”
Get full text

Linkages between Plant Community Composition and Soil Microbial Diversity in Masson Pine Forests by Jing Guo, Boliang Wei, Jinliang Liu, David M. Eissenstat, Shuisheng Yu, Xiaofei Gong, Jianguo Wu, Xiaoyong He, Mingjian Yu

“…Bacterial functional groups involved in carbohydrate and amino acid metabolism were negatively correlated with the availability of soil nitrogen and phosphorus, whereas saprotrophic and pathogenic fungal groups showed negative correlations with the dominance of tree species. …”
Get full text

Root-Associated Fungal Communities From Two Phenologically Contrasting Silver Fir (Abies alba Mill.) Groups of Trees by Tina Unuk, Tijana Martinović, Tijana Martinović, Domen Finžgar, Nataša Šibanc, Nataša Šibanc, Tine Grebenc, Hojka Kraigher

“…Linkages of plant phenological characteristics with belowground root-associated fungal communities have rarely been investigated, and thus our aim was to search for an interplay between contrasting phenology of host ectomycorrhizal trees from the same location and root-associated fungal communities (ectomycorrhizal, endophytic, saprotrophic and pathogenic root-associated fungi) in young and in adult silver fir trees. …”
Get full text

Fungal and bacterial communities in a forest relict of Pinus pseudostrobus var. coatepecensis by Baeza-Guzmán Y, Camargo-Ricalde SL, Trejo Aguilar D, Montaño NM

“…Ectomycorrhizal fungi (EcM) exhibited a higher relative abundance compared to saprotrophic and pathogenic fungi. A total of 69 EcM ASVs (Amplicon Sequence Variants) were identified, being the dominant genera Tomentella, Clavulina, Suillus, Russula, and Elaphomyces. …”
Get full text