Talk:Curvularia pallescens/Archive 1

Garny's Peer Review
Hi Saramirez,

Overall you have some good points on your fungus, here are some things you can do to expand your article:


 * Do not forget to include an introductory paragraph with the most important points of your fungus. The Wikipedia articles on Scedosporium prolificans, Chrysosporium keratinophilum and Malassezia pachydermatis are great examples for an introduction where you do not have an abundance of information to work with.


 * You have not included the history or discovery of your fungus. It would be good to create a separate heading for that and include it in you taxobox.
 * This link tells you that Boedijn discovered your species and named it 1933
 * http://www.mycobank.org/Biolomics.aspx?Table=Mycobank&MycoBankNr_=273299


 * Under the heading “Conidophore” you say length varies between species.
 * Do you mean between species of Curvularia? The article is about pallascens specifically so if you would like to include this point give brief examples of the lengths of the other species’ condiophores and relate it back to saying that they are smaller/larger than pallascens


 * Under the heading “Condia”
 * You already linked the term “conidium” so there is no need for you to put the plural form of the word in brackets.
 * If you want to use the word “conidia” instead just enter conidia (check out my formatting by clicking edit source next to my comment) and it will link “conidium” in your article
 * Since you also link the term “condia” there is no need to give a definition of what it is. You can go straight to describing the conidia


 * For the sentence:
 * C. pallescens is distinguishable from other Curvularia species due to its essentially straight conidia[4][2] which are typically curved[2]
 * You can link Curvularia for the C. by entering C. (check out my formatting by clicking edit source next to my comment)
 * This sentence is slightly confusing. A simple rewording will help. Do Curvularia species usually have curved conidia or straight conidia?
 * There is no need to use the word “essentially,” try to be as neutral as possible


 * Since Cochliobolus pallescens does not have a Wikipedia page there is no need to link it. Cochliobolus does have one so just link that.
 * Go into some detail about the morphology of this teleomorph. The shape, colour, conidia, etc. Here are some links you could use:
 * http://www.mycobank.org/BioloMICS.aspx?TableKey=14682616000000067&Rec=53226&Fields=All
 * http://www.westerdijkinstitute.nl/Indoor/BioloMICS.aspx?TableKey=14682616000000067&Rec=53226&Fields=All


 * For the sentence:
 * C. pallescens requires high precipitation / water to grow therefore, they are found on plants prior to harvesting as opposed to after they are collected, dried and stored.[8
 * re-word this sentence (remove “therefore”) so that you are not making a conclusion. Explaining why they are found on plants before harvesting sounds like you have made a conclusion about it


 * For the sentence:
 * Sulphur and phosphorus, among a subset of macronutrients, play a role in the proper functioning of fungi. However, it has been reported that C. pallescens is able to grow in the absence of both[9
 * Mention what the other macronutrients are. How are they used? If you explain this you can create another heading, “physiology” to go more in depth. *** Since this fungus does not use these resources explain what it does use and how it does so.


 * C. Pallescens is a major aerospore that produces allergens that are affecting India
 * The entire sentence should not be in italics


 * Infections in humans:
 * Are there any treatments for infection by this fungus?
 * Did the 4 cases you mentioned survive?


 * Isolated from foods
 * What kinds of foods? This is very vague. Fruits? Vegetables? Processed?
 * Going more in depth of the types of foods can also contribute to an explanation on habitat of the fungus.
 * If you find enough information, create a new heading “Habitat”


 * For the sentence:
 * In plants, C.pallescens causes leaf spots
 * Are there any species of plants C.pallescens has been known to infect? How does it create these leaf spots?
 * What time of year does this usually occur (most likely late fall)?
 * How long can the plant survive after infection?


 * Some interesting links:
 * article about the teleomorph related to a disease in an immunocompetent male
 * https://academic.oup.com/mmy/article/46/4/361/967370
 * article about proteins found in Curvularia species
 * https://www-karger-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/Article/Pdf/48167
 * This book from Professor Scott’s library on fungal species may have some helpful information for you.
 * It also has pictures of many of the fungi (WikiCommons would also be a good place to check for images)
 * Domsch, K.H.; Gams, Walter; Andersen, Traute-Heidi (1980). Compendium of soil fungi (2nd ed.). London, UK: Academic Press. ISBN 9780122204029.

--Garny Kafessian (talk) 18:43, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Belauoft's peer review
Hello Saramirez,

Below are some suggestions to help make your wiki article flourish even more. I hope you find my suggestions useful. If anything seems unclear please feel free to contact me.

Firstly, nice layout; the content is ordered logically.

 Lead  This section is missing. A lead section should state the most important information about  c. pallescens  and also give a good overview of the remainder of the content covered in your article. Be sure to not go into detail about anything here.

 Morphology  Conidiophore, you described them as being "typically straight", this is hard to visualized, please provide more description.

 Ecology and growth  Section is well written.

 Infection and disease in humans  As a science student I know what metastasize means, but another reader may note This is a good opportunity to wiki link the term to another wikipedia article like so metastasize.

List of allergens you provided: Brn-1, vacuolar protease and fructose-bis-phosphate aldolase. I was hoping a wiki article exited for each on but for all three of these there isn't anything. It would be nice if you could provide some information about the allergens, maybe, what kind of allergic reaction they induce in humans.

 References  You used a lot of credible resources, great work!

I found an journal article that talks about  C. pallascens  role in the production of biocompatible nanoparticles. Journal name: " Bioengineered silver nanoparticles using Curvularia pallescens and its fungicidal activity against Cladosporium fulvum". May you could add this to your article.

Also, you already mentioned that  C. pallascens  is an endophyte. Elaborate on what this means, you could say that is it lives within a plant for part of it's life cycle and causes disease in the plant. Source: " Raviraja NS, Maria GL, Sridhar KR (2006) Antimicrobial evaluation of endophytic fungi inhabiting medicinal plants of the Western Ghats of India. Eng Life Sci 6(5):515–520"

Overall, well done!

Happy editing! Belauoft (talk) 21:15, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Some suggestions
Medmyco (talk) 19:36, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
 * references and formatting look OK
 * you need to include the authority names and synonyms in your taxobox (per MycoBank)
 * watch your style for binomials, it should be ‘’C. pallescens’’ rather than ‘’C. Pallescens’’
 * do not describe individual cases in your final article. You would never open up an encyclopedia and find an entry that listed a bunch of case examples. Try instead to summarize/ generalize these.
 * you might be able to locate more content if you try [[]] or [[]] if you haven’t already