Virology & Mycology
Open Access
ISSN: 2161-0517
ISSN: 2161-0517
Seong Hwan Kim, Geunsick Lee, Hyuk Woo Kwon and Chan Jung Lee
Dankook University, South Korea
National Institute of Horticulture and Herbal Science, South Korea
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Virol Mycol
Recently, with the introduction of good agricultural practices (GAP) in mushroom cultivation, the numbers of farmers who are seeking for quality mushroom production are increasing in Korea. Agriculture byproducts are the major resources of medium substrates for mushroom cultivation in greenhouses. Due to the shortage of domestic supply of the medium substrates, the import of agriculture byproducts is gradually increasing. Subsequently, toward enhancing quality production, investigation of imported agriculture byproducts as safe medium substrates is prompted. To obtain information on harmful microbes, we isolated and identified bacteria and fungi from the imported cotton seed hull, beet pulp, kapok meal, cotton seed meal, peat moss and wheat straw which were imported in 2015 from Ukraine, Egypt, China, Indonesia, Canada, Germany and Pakistan. In this study, we report that a total of 9 genera and 11 species of fungi were indentified. Dominant fungi were Penicillium. Regarding Penicillium fungi; P. chermesinum, P. allii, P. commune, P. janthinellum, P. toxicarium, P. erubescens, P. spinulosum, and P. melinii were identified. Other indentified fungal species were Aspergillus pseudoglaucus, A. tubingensis, A. fumigatus, Bjerkandera adusta, Bionectria ochroleuca, Chaetomium bostrychodes, Fusarium solani, Paecilomyces formosus, Umbelopsis isabellina and Mucor racemosus f. racemosus. These identified fungi included toxin-producing species and pathogens of plants, mushroom and human. Our study demonstrated that there was introduction of fungi from foreign sources through the imported agriculture byproducts for mushroom cultivation.
Seong Hwan Kim has completed his PhD and Postdoctoral studies from University of British Columbia. He is a Professor of Dankook University. He has published more than 90 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as a Member of Board of Directors of Korean Society of Mushroom Science, Audit of Korean Mycological Society and an Editorial Board Member of Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology and Journal of Odor and Indoor Environment.
Email: monika.coton@univ-brest.fr