The present study contains results of some experiments that had been
carried out to study the advantage of olive mill waste water (OMW) use ability
and in sugar's factories wastes in Syria as fungi cultures to produce stall-feed
rich in proteins.
The results showed that Geotrichum rich in proteins had been grown and
geminated more rapidly and revealed that inorganic nitrogen additions
(nitrates or ammonia) to the culture have advanced the fungi growth which is
rich in proteins, the highest quantity of proteins was (8.6 g/l) in NH4NO3 (1.5%)
media and urea (2.0%) media whereas the fungi biomass was higher with
NH4NO3 (1.5%) than with urea (2.0%).
Ten isolates of fungi-producing amylase were isolated from six different
sources (different kinds of soils - air-spoilage bread) on malt extract agar
(MEA) and potato dextrose agar (PDA). Four isolates were identified in
Museum of Natural History
Paris- France and six isolates were identified in the
College of Agriculture, Damascus University.
The ability of fungal isolates for secretion aflatoxins B1, B2 and G1 was
detected by thin layer chromatography technique and the quantity of toxins
was determined by using electronic scanner in Syrian Atomic Agency by
comparison with similar standard toxins.
The research was carried out to evaluate the inhibitory efficacy of acetone, ethanol,
and chloroform of Evernia prunastri lichen with concentrations of (25, 50, 75, 100) mg/ml.
against three pathogenic species of Aspergillus sp. Which are: A. flavu
s, A. fumigatus and
A. niger . The efficacy varied among the four extracts, where both the acetonic and
methanolic showed noticeable inhibitory efficacy against the fungal species under study.
The efficacy increased of both extracts, at concentration (100) mg/ml growth of A. flavus,
A. fumigatus and A. niger was completely inhibited, whereas the inhibiton percentage for
ethanol extract reached (87.05, 78.82, 94.11)%, respectively at the same concentration. As
for the chloroform extract, it was the least effective, where the percentage at (100) mg/ml
concentration reached (68.23, 74.11, 62.35) %, respectively, compared to the control.
Depending on these results, the extracts lichen of Evernia prunastri could be used
as natural products to treat fungal infections in the future.
