Talk:Botryosporium longibrachiatum

It's Botryosporium longibrachiatum not Botryosporium longibranchistum.

It seems that the author is not fully investigate the specie, more work should be done so that more information could be added.

As for the 3 different varieties, is there publication that support the claim (expect the online database)?

For "Length 8 – 11, width 4 – 4.5", what length is this? what is the unit?

What is "Species of Botryosporium Corda" The genus is Botryosporium

Again, The genus is Botryosporium, not Botrytis.

Does it grow on medium? Does it grows on room temperature(Mesophile)?

For "Disease in Plants", Could you add more on this because it might be useful for agricultural purposes.

Some of the references are not coming from published aticles/books. The author should primarily use primary and secondary publication.

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Hello.

Thank you for linking key words to associated Wikipedia pages, it will really help out the readers that have limited knowledge on fungus.

I have a couple of suggestions that may help improve your article. First of all, you misspelt the fungus name, it should be change to Botryosporium longibrachiatum. The distribution/location of the fungus should be placed under "Habitat and ecology" rather than "History and taxonomy". Also, remember to only capitalize the first word of each heading, for instance, "Habitat and Ecology" should be changed to "Habitat and ecology". There are two taxonomy headings, so one should be removed.

The professor mentioned in one of the tutorials, that Mycobank does not have to be referenced; therefore, I recommend removing them. Information on the growth, reproduction, and physiology of the fungus should be included in your final article. I am aware that there aren't a lot of resources available about B.longibrachiatum. Nonetheless, you can still add more detail into your article by the information you already have. For instance, you mention in your article that your fungus has conidiophores. With this, you can say your fungus reproduces sexually by mitosis to produce conidia. You can find articles that are unrelated to your fungus but contain information on conidiophores and asexual reproduction to use as a reference. If you decide to incorporate information about asexual reproduction, change your "Morphology" heading to "Growth and morphology" and include it in that section. If you have a fair amount of information about growth and morphology, you could also create subheadings, "Morphology" and "Growth", below the main heading for more organization.

I found a textbook called "Field Crop Diseases Handbook" by Robert F. Nyall which has a whole section for your fungus being the cause of widespread Botryosporium Barn Mold. This textbook contains details on the distribution and symptoms of the mold which I suggest including in your "Disease in Plant" section. Also, I recommend changing "Disease in Plant" to "Plant disease" or "Pathogenicity"; remember that the first word in headings are capitalized and not the following words so do not capitalize disease it you decide to change it. Link: https://books.google.ca/books?id=TTboBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA794&dq=Botryosporium+longibrachiatum&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjrsbL6rcjlAhUEhuAKHZtGBOYQ6AEIMTAB#v=onepage&q=Botryosporium%20longibrachiatum&f=false

Under your "Habitat and ecology" heading you write that your fungus favours cold and humid environments. You can include this information under a "Growth" heading, such as "B.longibrachiatum grows maximally in ______ conditions". Including a proximal temperature for maximal growth would also be helpful. The reference you used to get this information, "First Report of Black Stem Caused by Botryosporium longibrachiatum on Statice in Korea", contains a to of useful information which you did not include in your outline. It includes details on the morphology of your fungus as well as its conidiophores which should definitely added.

Finally, the articles you used the "Plant diseases" contain more details about the symptoms and the duration of the disease. For instance, the article used for disease in hybrid statice contains information on the stems blackened from January to April during the winter and spring. These small details can add more content to your article.

When you are listing the areas this fungus is found in, you should include all of the locations rather than writing etc. Include units when including measurements.

Finally, if you cannot find more sources on the internet about your fungus, you should definitely check out Gerstein Library for textbooks. Professor Scott listed multiple textbooks that can be found in the library which can potentially help you out adding more information.

Overall, good job writing your article outline!

Kimchaem (talk) 07:16, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

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You might be able to increase your search yield by searching google for botryosporium "B. longibrachiatum" The genus name and species epithet will not always be side by side in print, often the genus name only gets mentioned once, then it is abbreviated to the first letter, so if you search the genus name together with the abbreviated species name in quotes, you might get more stuff. With this approach, for example, I found this macabre paper: Medmyco (talk) 20:52, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Microscopic fungi on cadavers and skeletons from cave and mine environments