Talk:Pithomyces chartarum

Hi, I just finished reading through the info of your species, I like how you organized your sections; it’s very clear and easy to follow the points to know the species. I came up with some little suggestions. First, if you are able to find the origin or how it was discovered and why is the species called this particular name, it might be easier and more attractive to remember. For “Habitat and ecology” section, the points are very specific but for a better understanding and where your species could be potentially found, it’ll be easier to follow if you start with the big picture and narrow it down to smaller conditions and environments. Also, check out “Pubmed” or other reliable sites for articles related on your species so that you can add more evidences and cases that, in any matter, it might be found on to humans. If so, you could also provide info on how to avoid and the treatments. Good job!

Hi, I think your outline is well organized so I just want to give you some suggestions. I think you should add introduction section into your page, like other created wiki page. Also, you can add more details on fungi characteristic, for example, how it looks? and what mycotoxin does it produce? or what symptoms do the plants have? Here is an article I found  that talks about Pithomyces chartarum's characteristic. Good luck on your final draft. Changy19 (talk) 17:14, 27 October 2017 (UTC)changy19

Hi, I just finished reading you outline and here are some few feedbacks. I think you may want to add an introduction and just talk about the fungus in general (e.g. common name or other names it may have, the genus it belongs to, it is the most widespread species in its genus, where it's mostly found). http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00288233.1963.10418130 This link http://www.mycobank.org/BioloMICS.aspx?TableKey=14682616000000067&Rec=21885&Fields=All has some synonyms for your fungus. So you may want to add them. You may add how it is related to human health. In this link, they mentioned that this fungus has been reported as an agent of human onychomycosis which is an infection of the nail. https://academic.oup.com/mmy/article/52/7/748/2812289/Pithomyces-species-Montagnulaceae-from-clinical Basmaz92 (talk) 18:08, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi Cjwalker! Your article draft is definitely a good start and I enjoyed learning some facts about your fungus. I think your article is well organized but can benefit from the addition of more information to the different sections that you currently have. You can try looking on websites such as Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.ca/) and PubMed (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/) to find secondary and primary articles pertaining to your fungus. I have noticed that there are some synonyms for your fungus on Mycobank (http://www.mycobank.org/BioloMICS.aspx?TableKey=14682616000000067&Rec=21885&Fields=All), including Sporidesmium chartarum and Piricauda chartarum, which would be good to add to your sidebar. Furthermore, I found a paper which explores the effects of lime and nitrogen in fertilizer on Pithomyces chartarum growth, which can be interesting to add to your ecology section as human intervention in crop growth has many effects on fungal growth; link (http://resolver.scholarsportal.info.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/resolve/00480169/v64i0006/351_tiolancopcip.xml). In addition, a question that you can ask yourself is how do the diseases in grazing animals and crops caused by Pithomyces chartarum affect the livestock and food industry? Do these effects influence human health? And have people explored any prevention strategies to overcome Pithomyces chartarum infection problems? I found one article that explores the effect of on wheat production in Argentina, one of the top producers and exporters of wheat in the world producers; link (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10658-016-1093-5). This other paper addresses prevention techniques and solutions for the effects of Pithomyces chartarum on calves, something that you mentioned in your draft; here is the link (http://resolver.scholarsportal.info.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/resolve/00480169/v58i0004/196_teozoanpccic.xml). Another paper also focuses on protocols for combatting facial eczema in livestock (http://resolver.scholarsportal.info.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/resolve/00480169/v64i0006/343_fempuoacozis.xml). The Wikipedia page for facial eczema also discusses some facts about Pithomyces chartarum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_eczema). Besides sheep, cattle, and rice, Pithomyces chartarum also seems to cause rhinitis and/or sinusitis in horses, according to this study; link (http://resolver.scholarsportal.info.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/resolve/00219975/v155i2-3/121_psapcaorasih.xml). Finally, I noticed that your third reference in the reference list appears empty, thus I recommend that you check your coding for that reference and make sure that it matches the template given on our class Wikipedia page or check to make sure you made the right in-text citation for that source. I hope this helps!--Juliaq (talk) 23:05, 27 October 2017 (UTC)