Halalophilc and halotolerant fungi in cultivated dessert and salt marsh soils from Egypt
A. H. Moubasher, S. I. Abdel-Hafez, M. M. Bagy, M. A. Abdel-Satar
Abstract
One hundred halophilic and halotolerant species in addition to 3 varieties belonging to 27 genera were collccted from 25 samples of cultivated desert and saline soils from different habitats in Egypt on 5-25%. NaCl-Czapek's agar at 28°C(±2°C>. The results reveal that there were no chancteristic halophilic and halotolerant fungi of these various types of soils. The growth of all recovered fungi was tested in medi containing 5-25% sodium chloride. Almost all halophilic fungi (growing better on 5-25% than on O% sodium chloride) were Aspergillus species. Most of the highly and fairly halotolerant fungi were Aspergillus and Penicillium species. All test fungi were halophilic or halotolerant.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5586/am.1990.013
Journal ISSN:- 2353-074X (online)
- 0001-625X (print; ceased since 2015)
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