Talk:Harzia acremonioides

Peer Review
Hello,

I like how you organized your headings as it allows flow of your information. Also, excellent job on linking key words to preexisting Wikipedia articles which allows people with limited mycology knowledge to easily access the definitions. Continue doing so as you include more information for your final draft!

I have a few suggestions that may help you improve your article. First, remember that genus names have to be capitalized and italicized, whereas species and further lower ranks do not have to be capitalized. Therefore, remember to italicize your fungus name! I believe adding more information in your Growth and morphology section would improve your article, such as including that your fungus reproduces asexually through mitosis; although you mentioned that your fungus produces conidia, readers who are not familiar with mycology may not know that conidia is produced by asexual reproduction.

You have a good diversity of resources but I would recommend looking for more resources, preferably reliable sources such as textbooks. I found a couple of textbooks that can provide more information for your article. A textbook called "Biodiversity of Fungi: Inventory and Monitoring Methods" by Mercedes S. Foster, Gerald F. Bills, mentions a couple of interesting facts of your fungus: is a biotrophic parasite that interacts with another fungus called Stemphylium botryosum by utilizing contact cells; however, it can still grow without a host fungus. You can include that your fungus parasitizes another fungus! I recommend adding a new headline, such as Parasitism (or something better) to include this information because I found more resources you can use to get detailed facts on this interaction, also it adds more variation to your article. Source: https://books.google.ca/books?id=Du2bi4tgcVcC&pg=PA385&dq=Harzia+acremonioides&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjA3bek7cflAhVGdt8KHe_8CeQQ6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q=Harzia%20acremonioides&f=false

Another textbook called "Biology of Conidial Fungi, Volume 1" by Gary T.Cole provides further information on the ability of your fungus to invade the sclerotia of S.sclerotiorum. Source: https://books.google.ca/books?id=PXIagP3HG0cC&pg=PA213&dq=Harzia+acremonioides&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjA3bek7cflAhVGdt8KHe_8CeQQ6AEIOTAC#v=onepage&q=Harzia%20acremonioides&f=false

You can also look up the "Interfungal parasitic relationships" textbook by P. Jeffries, T. W. K. Young to include more details into that section. Source: https://books.google.ca/books?id=1Z_wAAAAMAAJ&q=Harzia+acremonioides&dq=Harzia+acremonioides&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjukr7R7cflAhWBVN8KHXZkBy44ChDoAQhcMAc

Overall, you did a very good job looking for all those resources because I found that there weren't a lot of resources available for your fungus (found a couple requiring access and a few in different languages).

Kimchaem (talk) 02:55, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

Peer Review Comments
You’ve done a good job organizing your information under the suggested headings. Your taxo box seems accurate and complete upon my inspection. I would consider adding in a picture (if you can find one) of your fungus. Try looking up more papers tied to the synonymous names for your fungi if you need more information, I’ve included some below. You seem to use a neutral tone throughout the piece, which is good! It’s good to see you have a few books in your references, as those are usually more reliable. Despite that, most of your sources are not very recent and are all more than 20 years old. I would try to find some more recent papers to add to those you already have, if possible. The information from your sources seems to be true and accurate but you don’t use them to their fullest potential. References 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 12 are only mentioned once. While most of those sources make sense to only be involved with one piece of information, both 3 and 12 seem to have lots more information for you to expand on the species in general and it’s pathogenicity (3 and 12 respectively). Overall, try to add more substance/information to your page. It’s good to see you linked other Wikipedia articles to your page, I would also link saprophyte under Habitat and ecology, and just look to link any other terms that may be confusing for someone without a knowledge base in mycology. Some possibly helpful sources: Scanning electron microscopy of Acremoniella atra https://www-sciencedirect-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/science/article/pii/S0007153684801187 for pictures or for more information on morphology Microscopic fungi on schoenoplectus lacustris in płociczno and płociowe lakes in drawa national park (Northwest Poland) https://pbsociety.org.pl/journals/index.php/am/article/view/8036 this article claims the fungi grows in Poland, you can add that to habitat Effects of hot water treatment, biocontrol agents, disinfectants and a fungicide on storability of English oak acorns and control of the pathogen, Ciboria batschiana https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/full/10.1046/j.1439-0329.2003.00348.x more information on you fungi’s pathogenicity NOTES ON SEED-BORNE FUNGI: IV. ACREMONIELLA, CHLAMYDOMYCES, AND TRICHOCLADIUM https://www-nrcresearchpress-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/abs/10.1139/cjr46c-010 some notes on a potential controversy surrounding your fungi Esotericorangepeel (talk) 23:05, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

More info on your fungus
You should definitely try to build up the story on the mycoparasitic aspect of this species. Several others have suggested some references that would be helpful with this. Another is an English reference to this paper (Urbasch I. 1986. Harzia acremonioides als biotropher Kontakt-Mykoparasit an Stemphylium botryosum. 'Harzia acremonioides as biotropic contact mycoparasite on Stemphylium botryosum'). J Pl Dis Prot 93:392–396' in Biodiversity of Fungi: Inventory and Monitoring Methods edited by Greg M. Mueller, Gerald F. Bills, Mercedes S. Foster. Medmyco (talk) 18:06, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Harzia
There should be an article on the genus Harzia. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:17, 17 January 2020 (UTC)