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You are here: Top: Science:Biology:Flora and Fauna:Fungi:Deuteromycota (12)
- Beauveria bassiana - This fungus causes White Muscadine Disease in insects. Information on its life cycle and how it may be used to control the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis.
- Beauveria bassiana - Photographs of a cicada and a beetle killed by this fungus.
- Beauveria bassiana - Photographs and information on this species which is an aggressive parasite of insects, killing the flies it infects.
- Cryphonectria parasitica - Article by Tom Volk on this fungus, a parasite which causes Chestnut Blight and which has devastated the chestnut trees of North America.
- Deuteromycota - Information from Wikipedia on this group of anamorphic fungi, also known as Fungi imperfecti or mitosporic fungi, that are known only in an asexually reproducing form.
- Epidermophyton floccosum - Article by Tom Volk on this fungus which is a frequent cause of the condition Athlete’s Foot.
- Malassezia globosa - Photograph of this species which causes dandruff.
- Malassezia Species - Description of this fungus which colonises skin, with information on its pathogenicity and clinical significance, and its macroscopic and microscopic features.
- Paecilomyces - Information from Wikipedia on this fungus which can be used to kill harmful nematodes.
- Profollias downhoki - Tom Volk provides photographs and information on this fungus, found growing in a kangaroo's pouch, which provides a missing link between fungi and plants.
- Septoria tritici - Information on the life cycle of this fungus which is the causal agent of one of the most important foliar diseases of wheat.
- Stachybotrys chartarum - Illustrated article by Tom Volk and Nik Zitomer on this deuteromycete mold which is believed to cause “sick building syndrome”.
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