Hypocrea rufa (Pers.) Fr.

GenBank Accession No. JX518934

Serial No. 42

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Taxonomy

Kingdom : Fungi

  Division : Ascomycota

    Subdivision : Pezizomycotina

      Class : Sordariomycetes

        Subclass : Hypocreomycetidae

          Order : Hypocreales

            Family : Hypocreaceae

              Genus : Hypocrea

                Species : rufa

                  Binomial Name : Hypocrea rufa

                    Author : (Pers.) Fr.

Synonyms :
Sphaeria rufa Persoon, 1794

Anamorph :
Trichoderma viride (Persoon 1794)

Morphological characteristics
Colony colour : Whitish to tan to reddish brown and with age becomes darker and cushion shaped
Colony characteristics : Whitish to tan to reddish brown
Colony radius : 40 - 45mm
Colony on PDA :Fast growth on PDA plate forming concentric ring like structure
Hyphae : With cottony pustules
Mycelia :Uniformly cottony, typically with projecting terminally fertile conidiophores.
Pigments : No distinct pigments
Odour : No distinct odor detected
Microscopic characteristics
Conidiophore : Conspicuously and extremly variably curved to sinuous
Phialides : Unpaired, L/W (1.2) 2.0-4.5 (-13.0)
Conidia : Pulvinate to hemispherical pustules < 1-3mm
Chlamydospores : Present, scattered, globose to subglobose
Stromata : Fleshy stromata
Ascospores : Hyaline, 2-celled ascospores, disarticulating at the septum within asci
General characteristics
Main cell wall composition : Glucans, glycoprotien, chitin
Type of reproduction : Asexual (Herman et al. 2004).
Growth rate : After 144 hrs. in darkness conidia form abundantly in conspicuous concentric rings
Economic importance : Biological control against plant pathogens
Optimum temp. for growth rate : 25 - 300C
Optimum pH : 4.00 (Kredics et al. 2003).
Biochemical characteristics
Metabolite production : Peptaibols (Kubicek CP et al., 2008)
Enzymatic production : Protease, chitinase

Morphology Conodiophore Spore

District : Chandel

Topography : Slope

Latitude : 24026'38.4''N

Longitude : 94001'15.3''E

Altitude (M) : 799

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