Solation and identification of some fungal species from soil and dung in thamar province Yemen

Abstract EN

During the period from 27 / 9 / 2008 to 7 / 4 / 2009, thirty samples of soil and dung were collected from Thamar province to isolate and identify soil borne, coprophilous, and keratinophilic fungi.

A part of soil sample was used as direct plate method; other was used to isolate keratinophilic fungi by hair baiting technique.

Coprophilous fungi were isolated from dung samples by moist chamber method.

Potato carrot agar and oat meal agar were used as culture media and for preparing the pure cultures Ascomycota's which recorded during this study related to the genera Ascodesmis, Chaetomium, Emericella, Eu Penicillium, Eurotium and Kernia.

The hyphomycetes are belonging to Chrysosporium, Gilmanilla, Malbranchea, Microsporum, Paecilomyces, Papulaspora, Phoma and Thermomyces.

Some isolates distinguished in this article are newly recorded for Yemen mycoflora.