User talk:Aem1009

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HMB436 Commentary
Hello Aem1009 I think you have done a very good and thorough job overall! I do have a few suggestions.
 * Firstly, I think that a bit more information can be added to your ecology section. Since your fungus is a soil fungus, may I suggest taking a look at this book: Domsch, K.H.; Gams, Walter; A Andersen, Traute-Heidi (1980). Compendium of soil fungi (2nd ed.) (I am not sure if you have already). If your fungus is in here, there is generally a lot of information on ecology and environment that you could find useful.
 * I also think that you could maybe combine Plant Interactions and Epidemiology subsections since they seem to cover related material. This would help with the flow of the article.
 * In the Industrial Use section, I feel that it would be useful to maybe expand on the point: "This method is currently used to assess mycological content in grains and processed foods, and has a limit of detection at 5-10 ng/mL of antigen." Is this a good detection threshold compared to other methods that are out there? This is just a thought.
 * From doing a quick literature search on your fungus, I found an interesting article describing an interaction Penicillium digitatum and hazelnuts. The authors have found some evidence that P. digitatum is responsible for production of prenyl ethyl ethers that produce the smell of hazelnut decay. You could possibly add this information in the Plant Interactions section. Further research could be done on prenyl ethyl ethers to see if they affect humans in any way.

Hope this helps, and good-luck! MichaelaSo87 (talk) 01:04, 31 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi MichaelaSo87! Thank you very much for the review- I will definitely take your feedback into consideration. Aem1009 (talk) 13:14, 9 November 2015 (UTC)