User talk:Liuqingc/sandbox

Hi, I hope this helps a little bit in editing your article later on :) Feliciape (talk) 23:42, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Great detail for the morphology, but the section for growth (maybe nutrient, light, etc. requirements could be put down here).
 * This doesn't seem like it would be a standalone fungus. Aside from growing on hay, eggs, wheat, etc. do they need living hosts or are they saprotrophs? If that's the case, then what about them irritates/is allergenic (maybe you could mention that there were hypothesis that they might be associated with Farmer's lung HP in Finland, and the UK) (ref#13)
 * Reference #10, You could probably just keep the Department of Environmental Health & Safety together instead of using Safety as a 'last name'.
 * Aside from being a common winter outdoor fungi, also note that they are common food storage fungi (ref#13)
 * If you could find sources that might describe what happens to the stored food when contaminated with these fungi, it could be great. Is it damaged severely that great economic losses have surfaced in the literature? Or do they lead to more subtle cases of fungal poisoning?
 * Is there a story behind how the fungi came to infect the things that it does now if it is commonly (I presume also originally found) in Arctic marine environment? I reckon it has to travel quite a distance to get to the farmlands of Europe.
 * At the end there was a mention of using its toxin(?) as anti-cancer treatment. If you could clarify exactly which pathway of cancer's could be interrupted/destroyed/damaged with this toxin it would give a clearer idea and put more stress on its importance in the cancer-treatment realm.

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Hi Liuquingc. I come up with a few suggestion with your article outline about Aspergillus glaucus.

• Since you mentioned that the fungi are widely distributed around the world, it would be more interesting to provide the information of their habitats. This fungus is found in Arctic area. You might consider organizing the habitat category into outdoor habitat in nature and indoor habitat.

• It was very interesting that it can have an enzymatic capability at low temperature due to its low cardinal temperature. You might want to consider organizing the separate ideas of low cardinal temperature, its winter habitat and its enzymatic application in low temperature into one paragraph.

• I see it grows on various types of food, and I wonder if it is related to the food spoilage because it is an indoor fungus. I also found that its osmotolerance can make this fungus grow on very dry conditions even on the jam (Thom, C., & Raper, K. B. (1941). The Aspergillus glaucus group (Vol. 424). US Dept. of Agriculture) and other sugar-rich substances such as jelly and candy (Scarr (1951)). These examples will help readers to understand how low the osmotic stress it can endure.

• While I was reading the botanical review (reference #9), I found that the fungus was also found in the corn that caused the disease in the livestock fed by the corn contaminated by the fungi group Aspergillus in Ukraine (Panasenko and Moskovetz (1933) which you may want to check.

• Since it is also widely found in nature, is there any report related to the plant disease or crop damage? I tried to but I could not find any reported case and I thought you may be able to find any case(s).

• Its optimal growth temperature is 24~25°C but it grows in Artic habitat. I think the fungus does not prefer the low temperature, but it is just tolerant to the low temperature.

• You can also give a credit to the scholar(s) who discovered or named the species for the first time when you write a binomial name of a fungus.

• I am not trying to be rude, but I think you may want to paraphrase the very first sentence (Botanical reference to these fungi seems to begin with Micheli, who in 1729 used the generic name Aspergillus for the conidial heads characterized.) in the taxonomy section little more. People are going to read the reference which is the most cited in wiki article (in your case, reference #6) for deeper understanding. I know you did not write the sentence and it is not your fault since the sentence was the part of the original wiki article of A. glaucus. So, you can elaborate the sentence when you edit the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Soonyoulkwon (talk • contribs) 18:18, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

I hope this helps you. Cheers.