Fungal biodiversity studies have gained momentum in the last three decades with the primary objective of documenting the astounding numbers of fungi occurring in nature. Available literature reveals that majority of the fungi still await discovery. With quantum changes in the frontier areas of the life sciences, biodiversity studies have undergone many changes with regard to methodology adopted for identification of fungal species. Biochemical and molecular methods have replaced traditional ones. Understanding community dynamics on fungi is as important as identification and nomenclature of fungal species. Fungal diversity studies have been undertaken in different parts of the globe; yet many regions continue to remain unexplored. This article emphasizes the urgency to make use of the modern tools of science to unravel the fungal biodiversity in such unexplored regions. This would simultaneously provide thrust to the cataloguing of fungal species and documenting the patterns of fungal communities, which would further have added value from the ecological and biotechnological perspective.
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Morus alba L. is an economically important plant used extensively in sericulture, also possessesing medicinal properties. In vitro culture provides an effective means to overcome the common problems encountered in conventional propagation by stem cuttings and seeds. Effect of phytohormones, growth adjuvants, sugars and essential minerals on the in vitro response of M. alba explants has been described in the study. Phytohormones and growth adjuvants resulted in explicit response in terms of organogenesis. Sucrose and glucose containing culture media elicited best response among sugars in nodal explants. Typical symptoms were exhibited by the growing shootlets when the medium was deprived of essential minerals such as nitrogen and sulphur.
