Diversity and biochemical features of culturable fungi from the coastal waters of Southern China

Fungi play a major role in various biogeochemical cycles of terrestrial and marine ecosystems. However, fungi in marine environments remain to be one of the most under-studied microbial groups. This study investigates the diversity of planktonic fungi from the coastal habitat off Pearl River Delta (...

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Main Authors:	Li, Li, Singh, Purnima, Liu, Ying, Pan, Shenquan, Wang, Guangyi
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Springer 2014
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4230900/

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spelling	pubmed-42309002014-12-11 Diversity and biochemical features of culturable fungi from the coastal waters of Southern China Li, Li Singh, Purnima Liu, Ying Pan, Shenquan Wang, Guangyi Original Article Fungi play a major role in various biogeochemical cycles of terrestrial and marine ecosystems. However, fungi in marine environments remain to be one of the most under-studied microbial groups. This study investigates the diversity of planktonic fungi from the coastal habitat off Pearl River Delta (China) using culture-dependent approach. A total of 22 fungi and 9 yeast isolates were recovered from 30 seawater and 2 sediment samples. Microscopic and ITS rRNA gene sequence analyses revealed that most of the fungi belonged to the phylum Ascomycota and Basidiomycota with a very small percentage (3%) of the subphylum Mucoromycotina of the Phylum Zygomycota. Most of these fungal isolates exhibited considerable production of extracellular enzymes, cellulase, lipase and laccase. Fungal isolates of two genera Mucor and Aspergillus sp. demonstrated pelletization capability over a wide range of pH, suggesting them as potential agents towards algae harvesting and wastewater treatment. Springer 2014-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4230900/ /pubmed/25401065 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13568-014-0060-9 Text en Copyright © 2014 Li et al.; licensee Springer http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
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author	Li, Li Singh, Purnima Liu, Ying Pan, Shenquan Wang, Guangyi
spellingShingle	Li, Li Singh, Purnima Liu, Ying Pan, Shenquan Wang, Guangyi Diversity and biochemical features of culturable fungi from the coastal waters of Southern China
author_facet	Li, Li Singh, Purnima Liu, Ying Pan, Shenquan Wang, Guangyi
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title	Diversity and biochemical features of culturable fungi from the coastal waters of Southern China
title_short	Diversity and biochemical features of culturable fungi from the coastal waters of Southern China
title_full	Diversity and biochemical features of culturable fungi from the coastal waters of Southern China
title_fullStr	Diversity and biochemical features of culturable fungi from the coastal waters of Southern China
title_full_unstemmed	Diversity and biochemical features of culturable fungi from the coastal waters of Southern China
title_sort	diversity and biochemical features of culturable fungi from the coastal waters of southern china
description	Fungi play a major role in various biogeochemical cycles of terrestrial and marine ecosystems. However, fungi in marine environments remain to be one of the most under-studied microbial groups. This study investigates the diversity of planktonic fungi from the coastal habitat off Pearl River Delta (China) using culture-dependent approach. A total of 22 fungi and 9 yeast isolates were recovered from 30 seawater and 2 sediment samples. Microscopic and ITS rRNA gene sequence analyses revealed that most of the fungi belonged to the phylum Ascomycota and Basidiomycota with a very small percentage (3%) of the subphylum Mucoromycotina of the Phylum Zygomycota. Most of these fungal isolates exhibited considerable production of extracellular enzymes, cellulase, lipase and laccase. Fungal isolates of two genera Mucor and Aspergillus sp. demonstrated pelletization capability over a wide range of pH, suggesting them as potential agents towards algae harvesting and wastewater treatment.
publisher	Springer
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url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4230900/
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Diversity and biochemical features of culturable fungi from the coastal waters of Southern China

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