User talk:Basmaz92/sandbox

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Basma, I think you need to enable source editing for your assignment. Go to to the main wikipedia site, make sure you're logged in. Select "Preferences" from the top menu bar, then "Editing". In the second section "Editor" you will see a dropdown menu for "Editing mode" where you can select "view both editing tabs". Save your changes. You will mostly conduct your editing for this assignment using the "Edit Source" tab. Medmyco (talk) 22:49, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi, it's interesting to learn some facts about Rhizopus stolonifer after reading your page and I think you can add more details on some points. You wrote this fungi have three types of hyphae and it's because of different nutrient sources, but you may want to add what different symptoms or effects that may caused by different forms of hyphae. Or how can people identified them. Here's an article I found about identification of Rhizopus stolonifer . Also, I noticed you wrote this fungi plays a role in industry, so I was thinking if it can also help with current technology. I found a really interesting article on how scientist used Rhizopus stolonifer to get nanoparticles  and maybe you can used the books in Gerstein library to help you for adding more Morphology and physiology if you cannot find many sources on this part. Since it is a major cause for fruit disease, what are some penetrate if fruit gets infected or which kind of fruit is more easily to get infected and do people find anything that may prevent it happened? Here is a article about direct penetration of the infection  and anti-fungal activity TPs  and these sites you need to use utorid id to get accessed. Best luck on the final draft! Changy19 (talk) 05:59, 27 October 2017 (UTC)changy19

Hi Basmaz92! Whilst reading through your article, I thought it was a good start and it included important key information about your fungus. I think overall, the addition of more information and some modifications in organization will greatly improve your article. If you are having difficulties in finding secondary or tertiary sources for your fungus, it may be in your interest to explore primary articles which can be sourced through websites such as Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.ca/) and PubMed (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/). Much of the information found under the diseases section of your draft actually pertains to the ecology of your fungus as ecology is defined as relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings. Furthermore, in the ecology section, you could add information about interactions that Rhizopus stolonifer may share with other fungi and bacteria. An article I found highlights the antifungal effects of essential oils produced by another fungus, Thymus vulgaris, on Rhizopus stolonifer; here is the DOI (https://doi.org/10.1016/S0031-9422(97)00795-4). A bacterium was also found to have antifungal effects on Rhizopus stolonifer in this paper; here is the link (https://journals-scholarsportal-info.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/details/12258873/v52i0008/675_eoffbsaanirs.xml). Another article discusses the antifungal effects that a chemically produced compound, called chitosan, has on Rhizopus stolonifer. Chitosan affects morphology and causes cytological alterations in Rhizopus stolonifer. Here is the DOI to that article (https://doi.org/10.1016/S0953-7562(09)80447-4). Under your industry section, it would be great to add some information about the steps that people have undertaken to combat the immense effect of Rhizopus stolonifer on the food industry as a postharvest infector. I found an article that discusses the creation of a model of Rhizopus stolonifer growth for the purpose of reducing economic loss and improving the quality and safety of fruit. Here is the DOI (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0143400). In addition, you mention that your fungus rots fruits, breads and soils, thus it may be interesting to specify and give examples of these. I hope this helps!--Juliaq (talk) 16:27, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi Basmaz92, your article looks good so far, and it was interesting to learn about your fungus! I really like the introduction section of your article, you do a good job of summing up the important facts about your fungus. I think you could enhance your article by adding some more references and information about the fungus. Page 39 of Smith's introduction to industrial mycology (Onions 1981) has a fairly good description of the growth and physiology of R. stolonifer, and this book is available at Gerstein Library (https://search.library.utoronto.ca/details?4419200). In your sandbox you mentioned that R. stolonifer has industrial importance, if you can find more information about this, I think you should explain the industrial importance in more detail or add a brief description of the the compounds produced by R. stolonifer, and links to their wikipedia pages, ex. Cortisone. I would also recommend you expand on and clarify the history section. The sentence on history doesn't seem too clear to me, I would recommend you state the year when Ehrenberg discovered the fungus, and also the year when Vuillemin discovered it. You should add the information on author's names and the dates to your Binomial name and Synonyms section as well. Mycobank may be useful in finding this information (http://www.mycobank.org/BioloMICS.aspx?TableKey=14682616000000067&Rec=104688&Fields=All). The link in you article to Ehrenberg leads to a disambiguation page, here is the link to Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg. Your article's great so far, and I think it'll look great in sentence-form! :) Spipke (talk) 20:58, 27 October 2017 (UTC)