Publications

a preliminary survey of cycloheximide-resistant airborne fungi in turin, italy.	numbers and type of the cycloheximide-resistant part of the aerially transmitted mycoflora of turin were studied. samples from three areas characterized by differing human usage were taken in the first week of march. during each sampling, 12 m3 of air were aspirated, using an one-stage volumetric sieve sampler. fifty-two mesophilic species and eight thermotolerant were isolated. propagule load varied from 2.92 to 120.31 cfu m-3. the following species appear not to have been reported previously f ...	1993	8247094
the response of dark septate endophytes (dse) to heavy metals in pure culture.	dark septate endophytes (dse) occur widely in association with plants exposed to heavy metal stress. however, little is known about the response of dse exposed to heavy metals. in this study, five dse were isolated from the roots of astragalus adsurgens pall. seedlings growing on lead-zinc mine tailings in china. based on morphological characteristics and dna sequence analyses, the isolates were identified as gaeumannomyces cylindrosporus, paraphoma chrysanthemicola, phialophora mustea, exophial ...	2012	23118914
molecular phylogeny, diversity, community structure, and plant growth promoting properties of fungal endophytes associated with the corms of saffron plant: an insight into the microbiome of crocus sativus linn.	a total of 294 fungal endophytes were isolated from the corms of crocus sativus at two stages of crocus life cycle collected from 14 different saffron growing sites in jammu and kashmir (j & k) state, india. molecular phylogeny assigned them into 36 distinct internal transcribed spacer (its) genotypes which spread over 19 genera. the diversity of endophytes was higher at the dormant than at the vegetative stage. the saffron microbiome was dominated by phialophora mustea and cadophora malorum, bo ...	2016	27890087
melanization and ageing are not drawbacks for successful agro-transformation of dark septate endophytes.	dark septate endophytes (dses) are melanin-enriched ascomycetous fungi that are abundant in stressed environments. however, little is known about their physiology and metabolism, and dse genes have not been functionally characterized yet. therefore developing molecular genetic tools to investigate the biological function of genes of interest in dses is of major significance. we investigated agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation (atmt) efficiency in eight dse strains belonging to cado ...	2017	28705394
differential growth promotion of poplar and birch inoculated with three dark septate endophytes in two trace element-contaminated soils.	dark septate endophytes (dses) are abundant in stressful environments, including trace element- (te-) enriched soils. however, knowledge about the effects of dses on plant growth in such soils is poor compared to the well-known mycorrhizal fungi. the aim of this work was to evaluate the effects of three dse strains isolated from te-contaminated soils on the growth and mineral nutrition of betula pendula and populus tremula x alba grown on two contrasting te-polluted soils. the three dses evenly ...	2017	28521510