Effect of Combinations of Salt and Temperature on Morphological Characteristics of Microfungi

Aim of this study is investigation of effects of different salt and temperature combinations on morphological characteristics of microfungi that were isolated and identified with traditional and molecular methods from ？amalt？ Saltern/？zmir. A total of 37 species as 3 species belong to Alternaria, 13 Aspergillus, 2 Chaetomium, 5 Cladosporium, 9 Penicillium, and 1 species belong to each species as Acremonium, Arthrinium, Biscogniaxua, Diaporthe, Fusarium were used in this study. Using aseptic techniques, each of the microfungi were inoculated on Mat Extract Agar medium that was added 8%, 16%, 24% NaCI. Each concentration media was incubated at 17, 27, 37 ℃ at 7 days. After incubation of each cultures were investigated spore formation, mycelium diameter, colony front and back colour, colony texture, colony diameters, sclerotium and cleistothecium. All results were collected in a table and photographed. As a result of the study, we showed that combination of different NaCl concentrations and temperatures have affected on colony properties. Furthermore, these effects revealed morphological differences between closely related fungi such as members of section Versicolor, Aspergillus, Clavati, Circumdati, Flavi, Penicillium subgenus Penicillium