Evaluation of Aeromycoflora of Satish Pradhan Dnyanasadhana College Library, Thane, Maharashtra, India

By : Aasawari A. Tak , Umesh B. Kakde , Bhushan Langi , Chaitali Patil , Sarita Hajirnis

Page No: 167-171

Abstract
Fungi with wide range of diverse group are the primary component of environment. Environmental conditions like humidity, temperature, light, moisture are some major factors for their sustainable growth and diversity. The cellulite activity causes the maximum deterioration to library books, covers, materials, binding of papers. Fungal spores also known for many allergic diseases like respiratory syndromes, allergy to the library workers, members and readers. As library is the basic source of most of the cellulosic fungi, as it provides ambient temperature and moisture for their proliferation. The study investigated at the two different intervals of weeks in a month. In this study it revealed that resulted the most abundant species were: Aspergillus spp. (32.3%), spp. (13.8%), Alternaria spp. (23%), Cladosporium sp. (4.6%), Trichoderma species (7%), Chaetomium (1.2%) etc.

Authors :
Aasawari A. Tak, Chaitali Patil and Sarita Hajirnis : Department of Botany, Satish Pradhan Dnyanasadhana College, Thane, Mumbai, India
Umesh B. Kakde : Department of Botany, The Institute of Science, Mumbai, India.
Bhushan Langi : Department of Chemistry, Satish Pradhan Dnyanasadhana College, Thane, Mumbai, India.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/JPSR.2023.39.02.17