Ghufran Abbas Muhammad and Abdel Hamid Mohamed Hammoun
Department of biology, College of Education, Samarra University, Iraq
Received: Oct 30, 2021 / Revised: Nov 20, 2021/ Accepted: Nov 27, 2021
Abstract
Fungi are real-nucleus organisms that are widely present in the environment, some of which are large, such as truffles and mushrooms, and others are small in size, and others are seen only by microscopes such as yeasts, fungi offer many benefits to modern society through their use in the pharmaceutical, beverage and food industries. The study was based on the isolation and diagnosis of fungi associated with beekeepers from different bees from different areas of Samarra district and the isolation lasted for 12 months. The results showed that there is a difference in the number and type of fungal insulation by the different parts of the insect’s body on the one hand and the different chapters of the year on the other. Thirty-one fungal isolations from the body parts of the beekeepers’ insect diagnosed microscopic isolations into 19 fungal races. Anti-all fungal isolation tests (31 mushrooms) with 5 nurses were conducted: Alternaria solani, Fusarium oxysporum, Fusarium solanio Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Pythium aphanidermatum using the method of double implantation on the steel medium. This study aimed to isolate and diagnosing fungi accompanying the different parts of the beekeeper’s body in Samarra and to assess the efficiency of isolated fungi in resisting some fungal pathogens.
Keywords Apis melifera, Aspergillus niger, A. solani, mushrooms, plant fungi
How to cite this article
Muhammad, G.A. & Hammoun, A.H.M. (2021). Isolation and diagnosis of fungi associated with beekeepers Apis melifera and its effects on some plant pathogenic fungi. Science Archives, Vol. 2 (4) 343-348. http://dx.doi.org/10.47587/SA.2021.2413
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