Type: Fungi
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Alterneria
Alternaria is Deuteromycetes fungi, with sepate mycelium. Perfect stage is not seen often. |
Common Species are as follows Alternaria alternata |
It is a phytopathogenic fungi. The fungi is also used in degradation of Plastic. |
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Aspergillus
Aspergillus is ascomyceteous fungi consisting of many species found in various climates worldwide. |
Common Species are as follows Aspergillus niger Aspergillus flavus Aspergillus oryzae Aspergillus terreus Aspergillus fumigatus Aspergillus ochraceus Aspergillus foetidus Aspergillus awamori Aspergillus aculeatus |
The fungi is used in Production of steroids, aconitic hydrase, a-amylase, aniline, glucose oxidase etc. The fungi is used in degradation of apple distillery waste. It is used in production of acylase, aflatoxin, aspergillic acid,aflatoxin, amylase, diastase,antiviral agent,cellulose, and steroids. It is used in degradation of Aromatic compounds.
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Chrysosporium
Chrysosporium is a type of hyaline hyphomycetes fungi in the family Onygenaceae. Chrysosporium colonies are moderately fast-growing, flat, white to tan to beige in color; they often with a powdery or granular surface texture.Hyaline, one-celled (ameroconidia) are produced directly on vegetative hyphae by non-specialized conidiogenous cells. |
Common Species are as follows C. baduri |
The fungi is used in Degradation of Keratin |
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Cladosporium
Cladosporium is a genus of fungi including some of the most common indoor and outdoor molds. Species produce olive-green to brown or black colonies, and have dark-pigmented conidia that are formed in simple or branching chains. This is a deuteromyceteous fungi.
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Common Species are as follows C. acaciicola |
The fungi is used in degradation of Cellulose. |
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Fusarium
Fusarium is a large genus of filamentous fungi, part of a group often referred to as hyphomycetes, widely distributed in soil and associated with plants. Most species are harmless saprobes, and are relatively abundant members of the soil microbial community. Some species produce mycotoxins in cereal crops that can affect human and animal health if they enter the food chain. The main toxins produced by these Fusarium species are fumonisins and trichothecenes.This fungi belongs to deuteromycetes. |
Common Species are as follows Fusarium monolioforme Fusarium proliferatum F. avenaceum |
The fungi is used in production of cellulose,Gibberellic acid, Fusaric acid,etc. |
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Microsporum
Microsporum is a genus of fungi that causes tinea capitis, tinea corpus,ringworm, and other dermatophytoses (fungal infections of the skin)Microsporum forms both macroconidia (large asexual reproductive structures) and microconidia (smaller asexual reproductive structures) on short conidiophores. Macroconidia are hyaline, multiseptate, variable in form,fusiform, spindle-shaped to obovate, 7–20 by 30–160 um in size, with thin or thick echinulate to verrucose cell walls. This is a deuteromycetous fungi. |
Common Species are as follows Microsporum amazonicum |
The fungi is used in degradation of Keratin. |
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Neurospora
Neurospora is a genus of Ascomycete fungi. The genus name, meaning "nerve spore" refers to the characteristic striations on the spores that resemble axons.
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Common Species are as follows N. africana |
The fungi is used for assay of adenine, cholin inositol ,biodine, nicotinic acid, thiamine etc. The fungi is also used for production of ethanol, cellulose, amino acid oxidase. The best known species in this genus is
Neurospora crassa, a common model organism in biology. Neurospora intermedia var. oncomensis is believed to be the only mold belonging to Neurospora which is used in food production (to make oncom).
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Penicillium
The penicillium is the genus of Ascomyceteous fungi.It has large number of species. |
Common Species are Penicillium ochro-chloron Penicillium chrysogenum Penicillium frequentans Penicillium fellutanum Penicillium citrinum Penicillium notatum Penicillium crysosporium Penicillium janthinallum |
The fungi is used in degradation of plastic, lignin textiles, aircraft component etc. The fungi is also used for production of penicillin, antiviral agent, glucose oxidase, leucomycin derivatives, polyamine oxidase, asterric acid,carlosic acid, carolic acid, galactocarlose,penicillin, citrinin, fatty acids and lipids |
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Rhizopus
This is a Phycomycetous fungi with aseptate hypae.The fungi produces zygospore. |
Common Species is Rhizopus oryzae |
The fungi is used in production of Lactic acid, Fumeric acid, Steroids, and Imipramine, The fungi is used for degradation of Cyanide, insecticides, and Phytic acid |
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Trichoderma
This is a deuteromycetous fungi without sexual reproduction. |
Common Species are as follows Trichoderma reesei Trichoderma viridie |
The fungi is used in production of protein, Cellulose, paracelsin, acetyl xylan esterase etc. The fungi is used in degradation of plastic, Production of cellulose |
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Mucor
This is a phycomycetous fungi with aseptate mycelium. |
Common Species are as follows M. amphibiorum |
The fungi is used for production of Carotenoids, and Ergosterol. |
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Chaetomium
Chaetomium is a genus of Ascomyceteous fungi. It is a dematiaceous (dark-walled) mold normally found in soil, air, and plant debris. Members of this genus typically have superficial, ostiolar perithecia, covered in hairs. Asci are often clavate and evanescent, bearing eight spores. Ascospores are usually lemon-shaped, commonly colored olive-brown. Mycelia often grows in conglomerate masses that resemble rope. |
Common Species are as follows Chaetomium atrobrunneum |
This fungi is used for production of Cellulose, B-1, 4-Glucan-4-glucanohydrolase and Chaetomin,and imipramine. |
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Coriolus
This is a Baridio myceteous fungi. |
Common Species is Coriolus versicolor |
The fungi is used in production of Cellulose |
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Myrothecium
Myrothecium verrucaria is a species of fungus of deuteromycetes. A plant pathogen, it is common throughout the world, often found on materials such as paper, textiles, canvas and cotton. |
Common Species is Myrothecium verrucaria |
The fungi is used in production of cellulase, Chitinase, It is a highly potent cellulose decomposer. |
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Trametes
Trametes is a genus of fungi that is distinguished by a pileate basidiocarp, di- to trimitic hyphal systems, smooth non-dextrinoid spores, and a hymenium usually without true hymenial cystidia. |
Common Species are as follows Trametes gibbosa |
The fungi is used for production of Cellulase engyme. The fungi is also used in degradation of Cellulose and Lignin. |
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Beauveria
Beauveria is a genus of Ascomycotina fungi.Beauveria species are white entomopathogenic fungi. They form unicellular conidia that are typically hydrophobic and very small. The conidia are formed holoblastically from basally inflated conidiogenous cells. After conidium production, the conidiogenous cell elongates before producing another conidium atop a small denticle.The result is the formation of a distinctive, slender, zig-zag rachis. Colonies of Beauveria species are typically white or off-white on artificial culture media. |
Common Species are as follows:- Beauveria alba |
The fungi is used for production of Chitinase, Lipase, Protease, Leucomycin, Magnamycine and Cyclosporins A, B, C, D & E. |
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Poria
The fungi is a wood decaying fungi of Basidiomycotina. |
Common Species is Poria Placenta |
The fungi is used for degradation of Coal,and assay of Copper, The fungi is also used for production of Glycocide degrading enzymes, Polysaccharide. Poria is one of many wood decay fungi that feeds on dead wood. |
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Phaenerochaete
Phanerochaete is a genus of fungi of Basidiomycotina.Several of the species in this genus are plant pathogens.This genus includes "white-rot" fungi that are able to degrade lignin to carbon dioxide. |
Common Species are as follows Phanerochaete aculeata |
The fungi is used in White rot fungi have been used in bioremediation efforts to break down potentially harmful chemicals in soil. The fungi is also used for production of Glucose oxidase, Oxidase,Vanillate hydroxylase, Ligninase,and Lignin peroxidase
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Daedalea
Daedalea is a genus of fungi belongs to Ascomycotina. |
Common Species are as follows Daedalea africana |
The fungi is used for production of L-Glutamic acid. |
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Claviceps
Claviceps purpurea is an ergot fungus that grows on the ears of rye and related cereal and forage plants. Consumption of grains or seeds contaminated with the survival structure of this fungus, the ergot sclerotium, can cause ergotism in humans and other mammals.It is a genus of fungi belongs to Ascomycotina. |
Common Species are as follows Claviceps paspali Claviceps purpurea Claviceps fusiformis |
The fungi is used for production of Lysergic acid derivatives,Alkaloids, Ergotamine and Agroclavin, and Chanoclavin 1. |
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Aureobasidium
Aureobasidium pullulans is a ubiquitous black, yeast-like fungus that can be found in different environments (e.g. soil, water, air and limestone). It is well known as a naturally occurring epiphyte or endophyte of a wide range of plant species.This fungi belongs to Deuteromycetina. |
Common Species are as follows Aureobasidium oleae Aureobasidium mausonii |
The fungi is used in
production of
Polysaccharide.It is used in biological control of plant diseases, especially storage diseases.
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Botrytis
This fungi Botrytis belongs to Deuteromycetina. |
Common Species are as follows Botrytis allii |
Botryotinia Fuckeliana is an important species for wine -industry as well as horticulture. Other economically important species include Botryotinia convoluta (the Type species of the genus),Botryotinia polyblastis,Botrytis allii and Botrytis fabae.Botrytis tulipae is a serious pest of tulip crops and Botrytis narciccicola the bulbs of Narcissus. |
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Phycomyces
Phycomyces is a filamentous fungus in the Zygomycota. The spore-bearing sporangiophores of Phycomyces are very sensitive to different environmental signals including light, gravity, wind, chemicals and adjacent objects. |
Common Species is Phycomyces blakesleeanus |
The fungi is used for production of adenylate cyclase, Ferritin, lactate dehydrogenase etc. The fungi is also used in assay of Chitin synthetase, Ornithin decarboxilase.
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Acremonium
Acremonium is a genusof fungi in the Hypocreaceae family; it was previously known as "Cephalosporium".Acremonium species are usually slow-growing and are initially compact and moist. Their hyphae are fine and hyaline, and produce mostly simple phialides. It is belongs to deuteromycetina.
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Common Species are as follows Acremonium chrysogenum Acremonium diospyri |
The fungi is used for production of Cephalosporin P, N, C, Protease,carotenoids, exocellular glucan,and riboflavin etc.
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Datronia Datronia is a genus of fungi in the polyporaceae family of Basidiomycotina. |
Common Species are as follows D. decipiens |
The fungi is used in seas. Datronia sp., oxidation, reactive dye, white-rot fungus
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Sclerotium Sclerotia are often composed of a thick, dense shell with thick and dark cells and a core of thin colorless cells. Sclerotia are rich in hyphae emergency supplies, especially OIL. This fungi belongs to deuteromycetina. |
Common Species is Sclerotium rolfsii |
Sclerotia as medicine: Fungi are no exception, and due to their exposure to a wide variety of environments, they have developed the ability to produce a large number of such chemical compounds that are very valuable in medicine. The fungi is used in Production of B-Glucosidase. |
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Pleurotus Pleurotus is a genus of gilled mushrooms which includes one of the most widely eaten mushrooms Basidiomycotina,This fungi is commonly cultivated edible mushrooms in the world. |
Common Species are as follows:- P. gardneri P. dryinus P. australis P. purpureo-olivaceus P. rattenburyi .P. cornucopiae P. calyptratus P. ostreatus P. pulmonarius P. eryngii P. abieticola P. albidus |
Pleurotus fungi have been used in mycoremediation of pollutants such as petroleum and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.Degradation of Ligonocellulose, Lignolytic enzymes,Production of cellulolytic and lignolytic enzymes,Production of cellulolytic and lignolytic enzymes. |
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Flammulina Flammulina is a genus of fungi in the Physalacriaceae family Basidiomycotina. The genus, widespread in temperate regions, has been estimated to contain 10 species. |
Common Species are as follows Flammulina callistosporioides |
The fungi is used for production of Oxalic acid decarboxylase engyme. |
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Paecilomyces Paecilomyces a member of the Phylum Ascomycotina(Family Trichomaceae).Paecilomyces variotii is fast growing, producing powdery to suede-like in colonies that are yellow-brown or sand-colored. Paecilomyces variotii is a common environmental mold that is widespread in composts, soils and food products. It is known from substrates including food, indoor air, wood, soil and carpet dust. |
Common Species isPaecilomyces varioti |
The fungi is used in degradation of Plastic,It is also an important indoor environmental contaminant.
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Conidiobolus Conidiobolus is a genus of fungi. It is responsible for the condition conidiobolomycosis. It is a fungi of deuteromycoteous. |
Common Species is:- Conidiobolus coronatus |
The fungi is used for Production of Protease (alkaline)
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Oidiodendron Oidiodendron is a genus of the Deuteromycetes fungi. |
Common Species is Oidiodendron echinulatum |
The fungi is used in degradation of cellulose, xylan, pectin, and alsoproduction of polyphenol oxidase.
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Phialophora Phialophora is a form genus of fungus with short conidiophores, sometimes reduced to phialides; their conidia are unicellular. It is belongs to deuteromycotina |
Common Species are as follows Phialophora hoffmannii P. americana |
The fungi is used in degradation of cellulose, Oxidation/utilization of phenols. |
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Scopulariopsis Scopulariopsis is a genus of anamorphic fungi that are saprobic and pathogenic to animals. It is belongs to deuteromycotina |
Common Species is Scopulariopsis acremonium |
The fungi is used in degradation of cellulose and xylan. |
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Cunninghamella Cunninghamella is a genus of fungus in the Mucorales order, and the family
Cunninghamellaceae. |
Common Species are as follows C. africana |
The fungi is used in degradation of crude oil. |
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Stemphylium Stemphylium is a genus of fungal plant pathogen.(Phycomycotina) |
Common Species are as follows Stemphylium alfalfae |
The fungi is used for degradation of cyanide,and Production of formamide hydrolase.
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Malbranchea Malbranchea is a genus of fungi and belongs to Dueteromycotina. |
Common Species are as follows Malbranchea pulchellaMalbranchea alboluteaMalbranchea arcuataMalbranchea aurantiacaMalbranchea chrysosporioideaMalbranchea cinnamomeaMalbranchea circinataMalbranchea dendriticaMalbranchea filamentosaMalbranchea flavaMalbranchea flavoroseaMalbranchea flocciformisMalbranchea fulvaMalbranchea graminicolaMalbranchea gypseaMalbranchea multicolorMalbranchea pulchellaMalbranchea sclerotica Malbranchea setosa |
The fungi is used for degradation of keratin.
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Heterobasidion
Heterobasidion is a genus of fungi in the family Bondarzewiaceae and belongs to Basidiomycotina.The genus has a widespread distribution in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, and contains several species. |
Common Species are as follows:- H. abietinum |
This fungi is used in degradation of Lignin. |
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Rhodotorula
Rhodotorula is a genus of unicellular pigmented yeasts, part of the division Basidiomycota.Only Rhodotorula mucilaginosa, R. glutinis, and R. minuta have been known to cause disease in humans. Rhodotorula can also cause infections in animals. There have been reports of skin infections in chickens and sea animals and lung infections and otitis in sheep and cattle. |
Common Species are as follows R. acheniorum |
The fungi is used in oxidation/utilization of diesel oil, hydrocarbons, uric acid. The fungi is also used in production of Levanase,lipase,and lipid. |
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Fomitopsis
Fomitopsis is a genus of bracket fungi in the family Fomitopsidaceaec and belongs to Basidiomycotina. |
Common Species are as follows Fomitopsis africana |
The fungi is used in production of organic acid. |
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Marasmius
Marasmius is a genus of mushroom-forming fungi in the family Marasmiaceae and belongs to Basidiomycotina. |
Common Species are as follows M. alliaceus |
The fungi is used in production of Alliacide.
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Pseudofusarium
Pseudofusarium fusarioideum is a natural species of the Kingdom of the Fungi of the Phylum of the Ascomycota of the Class of the Sordariomycetes and belongs to Deuteromycotina. |
Common Species is Pseudofusarium fusarioideum |
The fungi is used in production of 6-aminopenicillianic acid. |
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Rhodosporidium
Rhodosporidium toruloides is an oleaginous yeast. It is a red basidiomycetous isolated from wood pulp from conifers. Rhodosporidium toruloides has been linked to bovine mastitis. |
Common Species are as follows Rhodosporidium toruloides |
The fungi is used in production of D-amino acid oxidase, phenylalanine ammonialyase. |
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Xanthophyllomyces
The basidiomycete, Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous is formerly known as Phaffia rhodozyma and belongs to Ascomycotina. Astaxanthin that may be used as a food additive is a main carotenoid pigment in red yeast. |
Common Species is Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous |
The yeast Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous is used for the microbiological production of the antioxidant carotenoid astaxanthin.The basidiomycete Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous (formerly known as Phaffia rhodozyma) is an excellent astaxanthin-producing yeast and has been regarded as one of the most promising microorganisms for the commercial production of this carotenoid. Astaxanthin is a pigment that produces the characteristic coloration of some birds, crustaceans and salmon. It has been used as a feed and food pigment in the aquaculture industry and has been evaluated as a pharmaceutical component because it may possess antioxidant activity. The fungi is also used in production of bita amylase. |
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Endomycopsis
Endomycopsis is a genus of fungi and belongs to Ascomycotina. |
Common Species is Endomycopsis capsularis |
The fungi is used in production of amylolytic enzymes. |
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Emericellopsis
Emericellopsis is a genus of fungi. |
Common Species is Emericellopsis synnematicola |
The fungi is used in production of antiamoebin and Cephalosporin.
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Omphalotus Omphalotus is a genus of basidiomycete mushroom and belongs to Basidiomycotina.They are saprobic, and grow in clumps on trees. |
Common Species are as follows O. guepiniformis |
The fungi is used in production of atromentic acid, gyropin, Illudalenol, Illudin A, Illudin B, Variegatic acid, Thelephoric acid, Xerocomic acid.
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Byssochlamys Byssochlamys is a genus of fungus in the Trichocomaceae family and belongs to Deuteromycotina. Species in the genus are associated with food spoilage, especially heat-processed acid foods. |
Common Species are as follows Byssochlamys fulva Byssochlamys nivea B. musticola B. zollerniae |
Byssochlamys can produce the mycotoxin patulin as well as byssochlamic acid and mycophenolic acid. The fungi is used in production of byssochlamic acid, byssochlamys fulva, mannitol, pectate lyase and Patulin. |
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Arthrobotrys Arthrobotrys is a genus of mitosporic fungi in the family Orbiliaceae and belongs to Deuteromycotina. They are a predatory fungus that captures and feeds on nematode worms. Rings that form on the hyphae constrict and entrap the worms, then hyphae grow into the worm and digest it. |
Common Species are as follows Arthrobotrys aggregata |
The fungi is used in production of carbohydrate binding protiens and collagenase. |
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Dacrymyces Dacrymyces is a genus of fungi in the order Dacrymycetales and belongs to Basidiomycotina. |
Common Species are as follows Dacrymyces ancyleus |
The fungi is used in production of carotenoids. |
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Phoma Phoma is a genus of common coelomycetous soil fungi and belongs to Basidioomycotina.Spores are colorless and unicellular. The pycnidia are black and depressed in the tissues of the host. Phoma is arbitrarily limited to those species in which the spores are less than 15 µm as the larger spored forms have been placed in the genus Macrophoma. The most important species include Phoma beta which is the cause of the heart rot and blight of beets,Phoma batata that produces a dry rot of sweet potato, and Phoma solani. |
Common Species are as follows Phoma caricae-papayae |
The fungi is used in production of cavoxin, cavoxinine, cavoxone. |
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Cephalosporium
Cephalosporium is a genus of fungi and belongs to Deuteromycotina. |
Common Species is Cephalosporium chrysogenum |
The fungi is used in production of cephalosporin. |
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Metarhizium Metarhizium is a genus of entomopathogenic fungi in the Clavicipitaceae family and belongs to Ascomycotina. |
Common Species are as follows M. anisopliae |
The fungi is used in production of chitinase, lipase and protease. |
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Eurotium Eurotium is a genus of fungi of division Ascomycotina. |
Common Species are as follows Eurotium lateritium |
The fungi is used in production cladosporin.
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Ashbya Ashbya is the genus of fungi and belongs to Deuteromycotina.It is a filamentous fungus or mold closely related to yeast, but growing exclusively in a filamentous way. It was originally isolated from cotton as a pathogen causing stigmatomycosis. |
Common Species is Ashbya gossypii |
The fungi is used in production of deaminase, riboflavin.
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Talaromyces Talaromyces is a genus of fungi in the family Trichocomaceae and belongs to Basidiomycotina. species in the genus form soft, cottony fruit bodies (ascocarps) with cell walls made of tightly interwoven hyphae. The fruit bodies are often yellowish or are surrounded by yellowish granules. |
Common Species are as follows T. albobiverticillius |
The fungi is used in production of |
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Cylindrocarpon Cylindrocarpon is a genus of fungi of Nectriaceae and belongs to Ascomycotina. Many of the species in this genus are plant pathogens. |
Common Species are as follows Cylindrocarpon abuense |
The fungi is used in production of deltatestololactone.
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Nodulispoium
Nodulisporium is a genus of fungi belongs to Basidiomycotina. |
Common Species are as follows Nodulisporium acervatum |
The fungi is used in production of desmethoxyviridin, Viridiol. |
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Kluyveromyces
Kluyveromyces is a genus of ascomycetous yeasts in the family Saccharomycetaceae. Some of the species, such as K. marxianus, are the teleomorphs of Candida species. |
Common Species are as follows Kluyveromyces dobzhanskii |
The fungi is used in production of ethanol.
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Pachysolen
Nolana, or Chilean Bell Flower, a plant genus also known as Pachysolen. It (fungus), a genus of yeast including Pachysolen tannophilus and belongs to Dueteromycotina. |
Common Species is Pachysolen tannophilus |
The fungi is used in production of ethanol.
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Amylomyces Amylomyces is a genus of fungi of family Mucoraceae and belongs to Phytomycotina. |
Common Species is Amylomyces rouxii |
The fungi is used in production of glucoamylase. |
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Debaryomyces
Debaryomyces is a genus of fungi and belongs to Dueteromycotina. |
Common Species are as follows D. artagaveytiae |
The fungi is used in production ofglucoamylase, amylase, alpha amylase and riboflavin. |
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Schizosaccharomyces Schizosaccharomyces is a genus of fission yeasts and belongs to Ascomycotina. |
Common Species are as follows S. cryophilus |
The fungi is used in production of B-Glucan endohydrolase and ethanol.It is particularly useful in evolutionary studies because it is thought to have diverged from the Saccharomyces cerevisiae lineage between 300 million and 1 billion years ago, and thus provides an evolutionarily distant comparison. |
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Absidia
Absidia is a genus of fungi in the family Mucoraceae.The best known species is the pathogenic Absidia corymbifera, which causeszygomycosis, especially in the form of mycotic spontaneous abortion in cows. It can also cause mucormycosis in humans. It is an allergenic that could cause mucorosis in individuals with low immunity. It usually infects the lungs, nose, brain, eyesight and skin. Absidiaspp.are ubiquitous in most environments. |
Common Species are as follows Absidia coerulea |
The fungi is used in production of Hydroxylated biphenyl compounds and urase oxidase. |
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Actinomadura The genus Actinomadura is one of four genera of actinobacteria that belong to the family Thermomonosporaceae and belongs to Phycomycotina. It contains aerobic, Gram-positive, non-acid-fast, non-motile, chemo-organotrophic actinomycetes that produce well-developed, non-fragmenting vegetative mycelia and aerial hyphae that differentiate into surface-ornamented spore chains. |
Common Species are as follows Actinomadura kijaniata Actinomadura madurae Actinomadura cremea |
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Actinoplanes Actinoplanes is a genus in the family Actinoplanaceae and belongs to Dueteromycotina. They have aerial mycelia and spherical, motile spores. Actinoplanes species produce the pharmaceutically important compounds valienamine, teicoplanin, and ramoplanin. |
Common Species is Actinoplanes deccanensis |
The fungi is used in production of Lipiarmycin. |
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Lagenidium Lagenidium is a genus of Oomycota and belongs to Dueteromycotina. It includes the biological control agent Lagenidium giganteum. |
Common Species is Lagenidium giganteum |
The fungi is used in production of protease. |
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Promicromonospora
Promicromonosporaceae is genus of fungi belongs to Actinomycete family and belongs to Dueteromycotina. |
Common Species is Promicromonospora citrea |
The fungi is used in production of protease.
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Morchella Morchella, the true morels, is a genus of edible mushrooms closely related to anatomically simpler cup fungi and belongs to Ascomycotina.These distinctive mushrooms appear honeycomb-like in that the upper portion is composed of a network of ridges with pits between them. |
Common Species are Morchella americana |
The fungi is used in production of Protiens (extracellular).
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Chaetomella Chaetomella is the genus of fungi belongs to Ascomycota family and belongs to Ascomycotina. |
Common Species is Chaetomella oblonga |
The fungi is used in production of steroids. |
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Hypoxylon Hypoxylon is a genus of fungi and belongs to Basidiomycotina.
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Common Species is Hypoxylon mammatum |
The fungi is used in production of toxin.
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Trichothecium Trichothecium is a filamentous mitosporic fungus widely distributed on decaying vegetation and in the soil and belongs to Dueteromycotina. It is commonly considered as a contaminant. Trichothecium causes pink rot of apples and is a parasite of fleshy fungi. No human or animal diseases due to Trichothecium have been reported. |
Common Species are as follows Trichothecium campaniforme |
The fungi is used in production of Trichothecin.
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Blakeslea Blakeslea is the genus of fungi and phylum of Zygomycota and belongs to Zygomycotina. Blakeslea trispora is a fungal plant pathogen of the genus Blakeslea. |
Common Species are as follows B.monospora |
The fungi is used in production of Trisporic acid.
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Ustilago |
Common Species are as follows U. avenae U.scitaminea, |
The fungi is used in production of Ustilagic acid.U. maydis is also eaten as a traditional Mexican food eaten in many parts of the country, and is even available canned. Farmers have even been known to spread the spores around on purpose to create more of the fungus. It known in central Mexico by the Nahuatl name huitlacoche. Peasants in other parts of the country call it "hongo de maíz," i.e. "maize fungus."Ustilago maydis is used often for its homeopathic remedies for the female genitalia. Common uses are for irritation of the ovaries, dark periods, non-menstrual bleeding (passive, non-passive, string bleeding), and pain in the ovaries or the womb, which includes cramping. |
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Valsaria
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Common Species is Valsaria rubricosa |
The fungi is used in production of Valsarin, Emodin.
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Zygosporium
Zygosporium is genus of fungi of family Ascomycota and belongs to Zygomycotina. |
Common Species are as follows Z.tuberculatum |
The fungi is used in production of Zygosporin A.
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References:
Introduction to Fungi - John Webster, 3rd Edition Cambridge University Press, 2007, p-873.