Synthesis and Evaluation of Some Coumarin Based Schiff's Bases as Potential Antimicrobial Agents' by Vishakha Bansode, Meenakshi N. Deodhar

“…These compounds were characterized on the basis of their spectral (IR, 1H NMR) data and evaluated for antimicrobial activity in vitro against gram positive bacteria, gram negative bacteria and fungi. The compound (5b) was found to be the most active with MIC of 20 µg/ml against all the tested organisms.…”
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Foliar Nematode Aphelenchoides spp. (Nematoda: Aphelenchida: Aphelenchoididae) by Lindsay Wheeler, William T. Crow

“…While most members of Aphelenchoides are fungivorous (feed on fungi), these three species have populations that are facultative plant-parasites that can feed on live plant tissue. …”
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Current Status on Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Microbial Degradation of Nicotine by Raman Gurusamy, Sakthivel Natarajan

“…Various nicotine degradation pathways such as demethylation pathway in fungi, pyridine pathway in Gram-positive bacteria, pyrrolidine pathway, and variant of pyridine and pyrrolidine pathways in Gram-negative bacteria have been reported. …”
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Facts about Antioxidants by Kaitlin G. Clark, Wendy J. Dahl

“…Antioxidants also can help our immune system defend against bacteria, fungi, viruses, and some cancers. The body produces some of its own antioxidants, but eating a plant-based diet increases the level of antioxidants in our bodies. …”
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Foliar Nematode Aphelenchoides spp. (Nematoda: Aphelenchida: Aphelenchoididae) by Lindsay Wheeler, William T. Crow

“…While most members of Aphelenchoides are fungivorous (feed on fungi), these three species have populations that are facultative plant-parasites that can feed on live plant tissue. …”
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Snow damage in plantations of Austrian pine and Scots pine in the western part of the Republic of Srpska by Zoran Stanivuković, Ranko Vasiljević

“…Also, the harmful effect of snow is reflected in the reduction of the vitality of damaged trees, which become suitable for the attack of other harmful biotic factors, primarily harmful insects and fungi. …”
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Armillaria Root Rot (Also known as Mushroom Root Rot, Shoestring Root Rot, Honey Mushroom Rot) by Laura Sanagorski, Aaron Trulock, Jason A. Smith

“…It is caused by several species of Armillaria, fungi that can be recognized by the clusters of yellow to honey-colored mushrooms that emerge during moist conditions. …”
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Paracoccidioides Spp.: Virulence Factors and Immune-Evasion Strategies by Emma Camacho, Gustavo A. Niño-Vega

“…Their exact ecological niche remains unknown; however, they have been isolated from soil samples and armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus), which have been proposed as animal reservoir for these fungi. Human infection occurs by inhalation of conidia or mycelia fragments and is mostly associated with immunocompetent hosts inhabiting and/or working in endemic rural areas. …”
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Characterization of Pseudomonas Species Isolated from the Rhizosphere of Plants Grown in Serozem Soil, Semi-Arid Region of Uzbekistan by Dilfuza Egamberdiyeva

“…These strains produced enzymes, phytohormone auxin (IAA), and were antagonist against plant pathogenic fungi in in vitro experiments. Most of the strains were salt tolerant and temperature resistant. …”
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A Series on Diseases in the Florida Vegetable Garden: TOMATO by Ken Pernezny, Tim Momol

“…The pathogenic microorganisms that attack garden vegetables, including tomato, can be classified into three major groups: fungi, bacteria, and viruses. This document is Fact Sheet PP-200, one of a series of the Plant Pathology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Services, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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Di-2-ethylhexylphthalate May Be a Natural Product, Rather than a Pollutant by Aurelio Ortiz, Estibaliz Sansinenea

“…However, in the last years, it has been found that this compound is produced by plants or microorganisms like bacteria or fungi. This finding opened a serious debate about the origin of this compound and questioned if it is a real pollutant or a natural metabolite with some biological activities that could help us in several ways. …”
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An Ambrosia Beetle Xyleborus affinis Eichhoff, 1868 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) by Lanette Sobel, Andrea Lucky, Jiri Hulcr

“…Females lay eggs in the fungus-lined galleries and larvae feed exclusively on the fungi. Recent studies have shown that Xyleborus affinis can vector the fungus responsible for laurel wilt disease, which is lethal to numerous species of trees in the Lauraceae family. …”
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Green orchid bee Euglossa dilemma Friese (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apidae) by Aaron Mullins

“…In Florida, male green orchid bees are attracted to chemicals produced by certain wood-rot fungi, decomposing vegetation, perfume flowers, and certain essential oils such as clove and cinnamon oil. …”
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Phytochemical and Antimicrobial Activity of Digera Muricata (L.) Mart. by Pratima Mathad, Sundar S. Mety

“…Among the bacteria used, the petroleum ether extract gave highest zone of inhibition at 400 µg/well against V. cholerae. Similarly, in fungi the ethanol extract exhibited highest zone of inhibition at 400 µg/well against Candida albicans.…”
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A Method for Detecting Fungal Contamination in Paperboard Cartons by J. A. Narciso, M. E. Parish

“… Contamination of refrigerated juice products in gable-top cartons may occur by filamentous fungi that are present in the paperboard. The method presently used by the food industry to assess the amount of fungal contamination in the paperboard carton material is cumbersome and inefficient (1). …”
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Recent advances in plant kinetochore research by Elena Kozgunova, Elena Kozgunova

“…This review summarizes recent insights into plant kinetochore biology, compares plant kinetochores with those of animals and fungi, and highlights key open questions and potential future directions in the field.…”
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Algae by Diego F. Gomez-Casati, Mathieu Pernice, Thierry Tonon

“…Advances in research on these organisms have been lagging behind bacteria, fungi, plants and animals, but the situation is rapidly evolving thanks to the development of new tools and resources. …”
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Shrub encroachment alters the diversity of soil fungal communities in topsoil, but not in subsoil under alpine grassland of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau by Wenming Ma, Tenzing Droma, Changting Wang, Xiangli Ma

“…Shrub encroachment in alpine grassland leads to soil fungi preferring to utilize the relatively accessible recalcitrant SOC (aliphatic group), and causes enrichment of copiotrophic fungi.…”
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A multigene phylogeny toward a new phylogenetic classification of Leotiomycetes by Peter R. Johnston, Luis Quijada, Christopher A. Smith, Hans-Otto Baral, Tsuyoshi Hosoya, Christiane Baschien, Kadri Pärtel, Wen-Ying Zhuang, Danny Haelewaters, Duckchul Park, Steffen Carl, Francesc López-Giráldez, Zheng Wang, Jeffrey P. Townsend

“…These fungi are commonly detected in cultures from diseased tissue and from environmental DNA extracts. …”
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Endophytic colonization of tomato plants by the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana for controlling the South American tomato pinworm, Tuta absoluta by Ana Carolina Loreti Silva, Gerson Adriano Silva, Pedro Henrique Nogueira Abib, Aline Teixeira Carolino, Richard Ian Samuels

“…Abstract Background The deployment of entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) for the control of crop pests is an important alternative to synthetic pesticides. …”
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