User talk:Alessia.d/sandbox

Hi I'm Sherry from Dr. Scott's Class:

In your wikipedia outline you did not mention the different names the fungus is under. Perhaps you should check out mycobank for the different names. Along the same lines, I was wondering if you knew whether your fungus is an anamorph or a teleomorph. It said conidia so I'm assuming it's the anamorph. But just in case, check it out. All the information should be on mycobank. I'll link it for you here: http://www.mycobank.org/DefaultInfo.aspx?Page=Home. Getting these information could potentially help you find other information that is related to your fungus. I also did a quick search on Onsearch UofT, and discovered that your fungus was primarily a plant fungus. Perhaps your should mention this as well. There's a paper called Infection, Colonization, and Disease of Amaranthus hybridus leaves by Alterneria tenuissima which might help you. In it it describes the different method your fungus colonize different plants and etc. I thought that might be helpful. Your fungus also seem to cause a lot of cutaneous infections in immune-compromised patients when I search on PubMed. That's another place to look for information. It doesn't all have to be Dr.Scott's books, even though they are the most helpful. Also the point resistant to amphotericin B should be under physiology not ecology and habitat because it has to do with the physiological function of the fungus. Also that's a very interesting point, maybe you should expand on why it's resistant to the anti-bacterial.

SherryDai93 (talk) 22:19, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Some helpful tips and articles!
Hi, my name is Parmeet and I’m one of your classmates from HMB436. Here are some tips to expand your article. First, it would be nice if you could provide an overview of the fungus at the top and possibly a photo in your final article to make it more interesting. I quickly searched up Alternaria tenuissima on google images and the photos look pretty amazing. Second, I like how you’ve sub sectioned your article, however, more information would be ideal. After a quick google search, I see that your fungus causes a lot of infections in immunocompromised patients. Perhaps you could make a section dedicated to that and expand more in that topic. I found an article dedicated to Alternaria infections that has some information about your fungus titled, “Alternaria infections: laboratory diagnosis and relevant clinical features.” That article would be a good starting point to expand on the infections caused by your fungus and how Alternaria species cause infections in general. Furthermore, I found an article about the mycotoxin that Alternaria tenuissima produces, Tenuazonic Acid. The article is titled “Tenuazonic Acid Production by Alternaria alternate and Alternaria tenuissima Isolated from Cotton.” You could use that article to expand and write more about the mycotoxin produced by your fungus. The authors of that article state that tenuazonic acid is a “known mycotoxin, phytotoxin, antitumor agent, and antibiotic.” It may be a far stretch, but it would be very interesting if you could expand on it’s antitumor and antibiotic capacities and even see if the mycotoxin produced by your fungus has shown to be helpful in actually treating human diseases. Hope this helps, cheers! Pkgill (talk) 01:21, 31 October 2015 (UTC)