New Fungi

MykoTech's team has discovered two species of fungi new to science from the Western Ghats forests of India. These have been named Digitoramispora tambdisurlensis and Spondylocladiopsis aseptata. This finding has been reported in a paper published in the International Journal Mycotaxon (see Publications)..

Publications

Raghukumar, S. 2006. Marine eukaryote diversity, with particular reference to fungi: lessons learnt from prokaryotes. Indian Journal of Marine Sciences (In Press).

Pratibha J. S. Raghukumar and DJ Bhat 2009. New species of Digitoramispora and Spondylocladiopsis from the forests of Western Ghats, India. Mycotaxon 107:383-390

Myko Tech is developing a technology for production of water soluble melanin from a fungus for use in cosmetic and other industries. The photograph shows the culture filtrate of the fungus

Myko Tech has been granted a project by the DBT under its ‘Small Business Innovative Research Initiative’ (SBIRI) programme, starting from September 2008.