Shazia Habib

Department of Environmental Science, Amar Singh College, J&K, India-190008

Abstract

A total of 36 fungal species were isolated during the study. The soil mycoflora was cultured using serial dilution and plate count method on PDA and Malt Extract Agar supplemented with streptomycin. The fungal density was recorded maximum during summers followed by spring and winter.

In summers the fungal density was recorded highest in descending order: Mixed wood forest of pine and oak (12.4×10⁴cfu g^-1), land put to non-agriculture use (11.8×10⁴ cfu g^-1), Silvo-pasture (8.2×10⁴cfu g^-1), agricultural field (8.0×10⁴cfu g^-1), floating garden (7.8×10⁴cfu g^-1). In spring the density remained more or less same in sites 1, 3, 6 and 7. In winters sampling could only be carried out in only three sites, density in these sites decreased appreciably due to drop in temperature.

Keywords

soil; fungus, density, soil

How to cite this article

S Habib Microbioz Journals, Journal of Microbiology and Biomedical Research 4 (2)

Article Details

Type of article 

Original Artilcle

Date of publication

21/06/2018

Mode of access

Open Access

Correspondance 

Shazia Habib

Department of Environmental Science, Amar Singh College, J&K, India-190008

Email ID: [email protected]