User talk:Alessia.d/Alternaria tenuissima

Hi Alessia, I'm your classmate from HMB436 class and wanted to recommend some sources that might be useful. One of them is from this link:
 * http://www.mycobiology.or.kr/Synapse/Data/PDFData/0184MB/mb-43-93.pdf. ( http://dx.doi.org/10.5941/MYCO.2015.43.2.93 ), talking about ecology, physiology and mycotoxin. It goes over many aspects
 * http://aem.asm.org/content/34/2/155.full.pdf or (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/562128), this goes over the toxin produced by your species.
 * You have the basic material gathered and can start making informative structure of your Wikipedia page. I would recommend to start with a little introduction and history about Alternaria tenuissima and talking about where it's from, what are the related species, plus you can include Taxobox, where the outline is given on the Wiki.Ed in our course page. For more information about taxonomy you can look at the MycoBank site where you will find information to fill your Taxobox. With the basic taxonomy you can talk about its relationship, also can add information about its interactions with other organisms under a different subheading. I would also recommend you adding industrial use subheading where you can expand on Alternaria tenuissima a little more. In the medical applications, you can elaborate more on how, why, and what happened to the organisms that your species is affecting.
 * For the habitat and ecology you can expand on the conditions that they grow on, warm, moist, or dry and what are those countries and where are they located, maybe its specific to few or is it regionally spaced? Also, can elaborate more on the plant hosts, which media (cells) they would like to grow on, like the ones that contain chitin. Expanding on their nutritional ecological role, like are they saprotrophs, or they grow using a symbiotic relationship.
 * Our professor proposed books that he has in his room, maybe reviewing some of them would help you in expanding your sandbox a little more.
 * I hope this helps!Vbmyco (talk) 07:18, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Hi Alessia, I'm another classmate from HMB436 with some feedback!

- You may want to talk a bit about the discovery of your organism and who named it - MycoBank can have useful sources for this, as well as for expanding your taxonomy to include the relevant phyla within which your organism falls. Here's another link that could have some useful historical information. You could mention when your organism was discovered, and other relevant historical references to it. Dr. Scott did mention, however, that it could be a bit dated, so keep that in mind: http://www.cabi.org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/dfb. - You could go into more detail about some of the mycotoxins that you have mentioned. In particular, alterneriol has been found on crops and has been linked to toxicity in Asia and Europe, and may be linked to food spoilage. Since you've mentioned this mycotoxin, it would be good to go into more detail about what it does. I agree with Vbmyco that it would be useful to use some of our professor's textbooks, and that it would be good to add a Taxobox. If not, here's a link to a book on mycotoxin ID, management and public health implications:

http://search.library.utoronto.ca/details?8003303&uuid=92dab6a6-4f02-4234-ac60-88905fbd4017

Here are a few PubMed links that discuss specific instances of food/crop contamination:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26381081

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26121047

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26408172

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26057112

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25585540

Hope this helps! Hmrdtlmzamie (talk) 23:04, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Hi there! I am a student in HMB 436H1 Overall the layout is well organized, there are few suggestions -	growth and morphology: * how do they reproduce o	how do they reproduce o	rate of maturation o	environment for reproducing o	some of the morphology is not indicated whether it is in the mature form or immature form. o	Are there any other species that they resembles to? (extension.arizona.edu/sites/extension.arizona.edu/files/pubs/az1331-6.pdf ) → maybe this will help. -	 Physiology o	what is the function of the particular mycotoxins. o	What food are they using for growth. o	Are they resistant to anything? -	habitat and ecology o	even tho various of contries, but which ones are the most prevalent? o	Maybe the cutaneous infection about the human should be under the category of medical applications. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JinCheng9595 (talk • contribs) 02:46, 31 October 2015 (UTC)