Advances in Life Sciences
Year : 2013, Volume : 2, Issue : 2
First page : ( 61) Last page : ( 63)
Print ISSN : 2278-3849. Online ISSN : 2278-4705.

Thermophilic Fungi from Mine Soil Habitats

Borkar K. M.*, Thakre R. P.

Department of Botany, RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur-440 033

*Email: kmbkhushal@yahoo.co.in

Online published on 31 October, 2013.

Abstract

Thermophilic fungi are inhabitant of soil along with other habitats. Howerver, mine sites being diverse habitats were unexplored for the occurrence of these fungi. Manganese and coal mine soils habitats from Vidarbha region of Maharashtra state in India were selected as the study sites and thermophilic fungi were isolated at specific time intervals using using nutrient media as source of nutrition. It was found that Emericella nidulans and Aspergillus fumigatus were present in all isolations made from the selected soils. Humicola grisea, Myriococcum albomyces and Chaetomium thermophile var. dissitum and Malbranchea pulchella were isolated from the coal mine soil samples. Aspergillus fumigatus occurred most of the times during isolation. While, from manganese mine soil 10 fungi were isolated. Rhizopus microsporus was reported several times, while Aspergillus fumigatus, Emericella nidulans, Humicola insolens, Thermomyces lanuginosus and Sporotrichum thermophile were isolated in 4 out of 6 isolations.

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Keywords

Thermophilic fungi, coal mine, manganese mine soil, Percent occurrence, Percent relative density.

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