Field and laboratory studies on Nile freshwater fungi with a special references to polluted sites (Aswan region).

Abstract

This investigation embraces some studies on freshwater fungi -trictly Aquatic and Terrestrial fungi) and physico-chemical aracteristics of water and mud samples collected from the polluted nals with the industrial effluents of both Kima factory for fertilizers -Iring January to December 1996 and Kom Ombo sugar cane factory -Iring January to May 1996(The factory works only during these -onths each year) and of the River Nile at Aswan district during -ovember and December 1997.The strictly aquatic fungi were surveyed -td identified with the aid of baiting technique in which sesame seeds -ere used. Also terrestrial fungi were isolated on glucose- and :llulose-Czapek's agar medium.