PJB-2018-9
FTIR-ATR ANALYSIS OF BIOCHEMICAL FUNCTIONAL MOIETIES OF PYROFOMES DEMIDOFII ISOLATED FROM JUNIPER TREE ZIARAT, PAKISTAN
Shagufta Fahmid
Abstract
Wood roter fungi are well thought-out as core pathogens to many plants and can cause a severe economic smash up. Pyrofomes demidofii is a basidiomycetous fungus that is responsible for a white heart rot, an infection causing massive losses of Juniper forest across the world including Pakistan. Juniper excelsa forest often termed as a "living forest fossil", and their allied plants and animals embrace a distinctive ecosystem, in the arid mountains and harsh environmental conditions of Baluchistan province, Pakistan. These forests are considered to be one of the world’s largest and oldest and awfully slow growing drought resistant, with ordinary regeneration. Therefore, the early detection and identification of these pathogens is very important and might be vital for their control. The accessible methods for recognition of fungi like serological and PCR etc are time consuming and costly. Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) attenuated total reflection (ATR) spectroscopy, is considered to be a speedy and sensitive method for recognition of fungi .In the present study FTIR–ATR is used and found as a sensitive and valuable assay for the detection and identification of isolated wood roters fungi pyrofomes demidofii
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