Serial No. 21
Kingdom : Fungi
Division : Ascomycota
Subdivision : Pezizomycotina
Class : Sordariomycetes
Subclass : Hypocreomycetidae
  Order : Hypocreales
  Family : Hypocreaceae
  Genus : Trichoderma
  Species : gamsii
  Binomial Name : Trichoderma gamsii
  Author : Samuels and Druzhin, 2006
Synonyms :
Not available
Telomorph :
Not available
Colony colour | : | Dense white |
Colony characteristics | : | At first yellow, then green, pustules cottony to dense, conidia forming abundantly conspicuous concentric rings. |
Colony radius | : | > 45mm after 72 hrs. |
Colony on PDA | : | Dense white mycelium covering 9 cm diameter petri plate, concentric rings |
Hyphae | : | Forming mat like structure |
Mycelia | : | Dense white mycelium covering the 9 cm diameter Petri plate. |
Pigments | : | Sometimes with a pale yellow diffusing pigment. |
Odour | : | Typically with a strong coconut-like odor detected |
Conidiophore | : | Neither as extensive nor as uniformly branched |
Phialides | : | Solitary phialides common, lageniform |
Conidia | : | Smooth, ellipsoidal, warted, L/W 1.1-1.3 |
Chlamydospores | : | Chlamydospores typically abundant, subglobose, terminal on hyphae, (3.0-)8.5-12.0(-15.7) χ (3.0-)8.0-11.5(-15.5) μm. |
Stromata | : | Not known |
Ascospores | : | Not known |
Main cell wall composition | : | Glucans, glycoprotien, chitin |
Type of reproduction | : | Asexual (Herman et al. 2004). |
Growth rate | : | Grow rapidly with colony radius 50-60 mm after 72 hrs. |
Economic importance | : | Biological control against plant pathogens |
Optimum temp. for growth rate | : | 25-300C |
Optimum pH | : | 4.00 (Kredics et al. 2003). |
Metabolite production | : | Peptaibols (Ghisalberti and Sivasithamparam, 1991) |
Enzymatic production | : | Protease, chitinase |
Morphology | Conodiophore | Spore |
District : Tamenglong
Topography : Hill
Latitude : 24044'56.0''N
Longitude : 93078'01''E
Altitude (M) : 1260