Authors : J. Thaware and S. Jawade.
Page Nos : 246-249
Description :
Abstract:
Hundreds of culture media were prepared for the study of fungi, which are specific according to fungal nutrient requirement and their capability of degradation. Some nutrient media have simple or complex carbohydrates, some are with peptones and few are complete chemical mixture of many elements. These diverse media can be differentially used for specific study of fungal biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, cell biology or taxonomic studies. With aim of finding a better nutrient media specific for aeromycoflora study for isolation, identification and conservation, with respect to Diversity, growth and count the present study was carried out. The studies shows that, the PDA and PDRBA were good for the Isolation and Identification studies were CDA were efficient for Conservation of Aeromycoflora. Zygomycetes members can be studied on MEA. SDA were poor for growth of Aero-fungi, this is the only peptone containing media which were good to study opportunistic pathogens such as Aspergillus fumigatus, Candida, Yeast etc.
Keywords- Aeromycoflora, Nutrient media, Mold spores, Petriplate method.
