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Abstract
The first part of this investigation was carried out for studying the regional occurrence, distribution and biodiversity of zoosporic and terrestrial fungi resident in the surface water and soil samples which were collected from different sites in two geographically and ecologically far regions at Assiut, Egypt and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. For this purpose, 400 samples (200 samples of surface water and 200 samples of wetted soil) were collected from the two regions of study during the period from January 2009 to May 2013. The physico-chemical characteristics (temperature, pH values, total soluble salts and the organic matter content) as abiotic factors affecting the occurrence and biodiversity of both zoosporic and terrestrial mycobiota were also determined and considered during this investigation.
The most prominent and distinct results during this part of the study can be summarized as follows:
1-Regional occurrence, distribution and biodiversity of zoosporic and terrestrial fungi at the two regions:
I-Zoosporic fungi:
A-from surface water samples:
1-Twenty-three identified in addition to three unidentified species appertaining to eight genera of zoosporic fungi were isolated during this study from one hundred surface water samples which were collected randomly from different sites at Assiut region, Egypt during the period from January 2009 to May 2013.