Biogeography and uniqueness of filamentous terrestrial fungi in the polar regions

OA Grum-Grzhimaylo, AA Shurigina, AJM Debets… - Fungal Biology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Fungi are widely distributed on our planet, including in extremely harsh habitats, such as the
polar regions. The extreme conditions of those habitats limit the number of organisms …

Extracellular enzymes and bioactive compounds from Antarctic terrestrial fungi for bioprospecting

L Zucconi, F Canini, ME Temporiti, S Tosi - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Antarctica, one of the harshest environments in the world, has been successfully colonized
by extremophilic, psychrophilic, and psychrotolerant microorganisms, facing a range of …

Temperature and pH profiling of extracellular amylase from Antarctic and Arctic soil microfungi

A Krishnan, Z Alias, P Convey, M González-Aravena… - Fermentation, 2022 - mdpi.com
While diversity studies and screening for enzyme activities are important elements of
understanding fungal roles in the soil ecosystem, extracting and purifying the target enzyme …

Activity of Antarctic fungi extracts against phytopathogenic bacteria

J Purić, G Vieira, LB Cavalca, LD Sette… - Letters in applied …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
This study aims to obtain secondary metabolites extracts from filamentous fungi isolated
from soil and marine sediments from Antarctic ecosystems and to assess its potential …

Antarctic fungi with antibiotic potential isolated from Fort William Point, Antarctica

E Ordóñez-Enireb, RV Cucalón, D Cárdenas… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The Antarctic continent is one of the most inhospitable places on earth, where living
creatures, mostly represented by microorganisms, have specific physiological characteristics …

[HTML][HTML] Antarctic Streptomyces: Promising biocontrol agents for combating Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense

JV Perez, L Serrano, R Viteri, D Sosa, CA Romero… - Biotechnology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Fusarium wilt of Banana (FWB) caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc) poses a
significant threat to the banana industry, with current inadequate control measures. This …

Chemical compounds and computational prediction of their inhibitory effects on the HIV-1 gp120 receptor by lingzhi or reishi medicinal mushroom, ganoderma …

PG Cheng, TC Teoh… - International Journal of …, 2021 - dl.begellhouse.com
In this study, crude extracts of Ganoderma lucidum (NGCs) were compared to the crude
extracts of G. lucidum that has antler-like fruiting bodies (AGCs) for their cytotoxicity …

Screening of marine Actinomycetia with bioactive metabolites from nearshore and deep sea marine sediments in southwestern Taiwan

J Kuo, KT Chen, MC Lu, PJ Sung, CH Lin, YS Huang - Biologia, 2023 - Springer
The aim of this study was to survey marine Actinomycetia (former class Actinobacteria) from
nearshore sediments in Kaohsiung Harbor and deep-sea sediments in the Bashi Channel …

Fungi present in soils of Antarctica

ECQ Gomes, HM Figueredo, FS de Oliveira… - Fungi of Antarctica …, 2019 - Springer
Fungi are cosmopolitan organisms capable of colonising different types of soils in different
ecosystems of the planet. Soils represent the main source of isolation of fungi studied in …

The fungal ecology of seabird nesting sites in the Falkland Islands indicates a niche for mycoparasites

J Hargreaves, P Brickle, P Van West - Fungal Ecology, 2018 - Elsevier
Soil fungal communities are complex and heterogeneous, possessing important functions in
most terrestrial ecological systems. Their study has been advanced due to the development …