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ISSN 2410-776X (Online),
ISSN 2410-7751 (Print)

 3 2015

"Biotechnologia Acta" V. 8, No 3, 2015
https://doi.org/10.15407/biotech8.03.056
Р. 56-66, Bibliography 25, Russian
Universal Decimal Classification: 579.22:631.465

THE HALOPHILICITY OF FILAMENTOUS FUNGI ISOLATED FROM SALINE SOILS OF SOUTH CAUCASUS

Kvesitadze E.

Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia

The work is devoted to the isolation, purification, determination of taxonomical characteristics and application in soil improvement and other biotechnological processes halophilic microscopic fungi strains isolated from saline soils of Eastern Georgia (middle part of South Caucasus), where their existence is maximally supposed. In all soilclimatic zones the dominate forms of spread fungi are genera Aspergillus, Penicillium and Fusarium, followed by Trichoderma and Mucor. Other genera are met less intensively. The genera Aspergillus is widely spread in chestnut soils and in chernozem, in green forest soils the genera Penicillium is prevailing. The salinity of soil, lake or any other objects from which the isolation of microscopic fungi is performed greatly determines halophilisity of isolated strains. Finally, the collection of halophilic microscopic fungi has been created accounting 96 isolates of extreme halophiles, halophiles and week halophiles.

Key words: halophiles, microscopic fungi, extremophiles, enzymes.

© Palladin Institute of Biochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2015