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Soil mycoflora from the Dead Sea Oases of Ein Gedi and Einot Zuqim (Israel)

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Samples were taken from the top 10 cm of soils from 24 points in the Ein Gedi area. Among 329 isolates, 142 species were identified: 11 genera of ascomycetes, one genus of coelomycetes, 28 genera of hyphomycetes, 7 genera of zygomycetes and one yeast, in addition to some unidentified basidiomycetes. The hyphomycetes were represented by 17 dematiaceous, 9 mucedinaceous and two tuberculariaceous. Melanconiaceous and stilbellaceous genera were not found. Two new varieties of Microascus recently described were reisolated. No strict thermophiles or halophiles were obtained. There is apparently no very characteristic or specific fungal flora of the Dead Sea Oases although it was different from that found in the desert soil surrounding this area.

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Steiman, R., Guiraud, P., Sage, L. et al. Soil mycoflora from the Dead Sea Oases of Ein Gedi and Einot Zuqim (Israel). Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 72, 261–270 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1000441705073

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