Incidence of Air-Borne Mycoflora of Baghsar Fort and its Allied Areas from Samahni Valley District Bhimber Azad Kashmir, Pakistan | Chapter 04 | Theory and Applications of Microbiology and Biotechnology Vol. 1
Fungi are potential profounding cause
of aeroallergens which are creating a appalling scenario culminating into
various fatal diseases to man, livestock and plant biodiversity such
asperglosis, mycosis and as smut and rust, respectively. In the present study,
air-borne mycoflora of Baghsar Fort Samahni (BFS) and its allied forest (Azad
Kashmir, Pakistan) was spatially and temporally analyzed. Spores were collected
from five different sampling sites (S.1 S.2, S.3, S.4, S.5) by air-trapper and
grown on two different culture media viz. potato dextrose agar (PDA) and water
agar (WA), and isolated by using culture plate technique (CPT). A total of
seven different fungal species of six genera namely Aspergillus niger,
Alternaria solani, Cladosporium sp., Fusarium sp., Penicillium sp. and Curvularia
sp. were isolated and identified. On PDA medium, Cladosporium sp. was found to
be the most abundant (21.3%) fungal species followed by A. niger (17.8%), A.
solani (15.4%), Alternaria alternata (14.9%), Fusarium sp. (13.3%), Penicillium
sp. (9.0%) and Curvularia sp. (8.3%). In other WA medium, Cladosporium sp. was
again dominating and most prevalent (23.2%), and other species occurrence was
as: A. niger (19.2%), A. solani (18.1%), A. alternata (14.1%), Fusarium sp.
(11.3%), Curvularia sp. (8.5%) and Penicillium sp. (5.6%). PDA proved a better
medium for capturing and perpetuation of fungi. High incidence of Cladosporium
spp. is a major cause of fruit rots and immature seed falling and ultimately
leads to economic loss to the area.
Author(s) Details
Dr. Muhammad Ishtiaq
(Ph.D.)
Department of Botany, Mirpur
University of Science and Technology (MUST), Mirpur 10250, Azad Jammu and
Kashmir, Pakistan.
Tanveer Hussain
Department of Botany, Mirpur
University of Science and Technology (MUST), Mirpur 10250, Azad Jammu and
Kashmir, Pakistan.
Mehwish Maqbool
Department of Botany, Mirpur
University of Science and Technology (MUST), Mirpur 10250, Azad Jammu and
Kashmir, Pakistan.
Shehzad Azam
Department of Botany, Mirpur
University of Science and Technology (MUST), Mirpur 10250, Azad Jammu and
Kashmir, Pakistan.
Amin Shah
Department of Biological
Sciences, University of Sargodah, Sargodah, Pakistan.
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