User talk:Sienadellarossa/sandbox

Hello I am a fellow classmate from HMB436.

Your assigned fungus looks to be really interesting especially in its role as a biological control substances in the combat against plant pathogens. It would be great to know more about how they actually work against these pathogens. Maybe you can pick out a couple of species plants (I saw some paper that talked about biocontrol in tomatoes, rice and pineapples) and how your assigned fungus has helped with dealing with the pathogens that affect them. Maybe you can allude to how your fungus has helped with the agriculture industry since I am assuming that getting rid of these plant pathogens would have a significant impact on food production. I would love to know more about that. Some information about the epidemiology of the fungus would be a great addition to your page. I have also noticed that most of the paper concerning this fungus were based on Thailand. So maybe there is a link between Chaetomium cupreum and Thailand? Do most of the plant pathogen that is susceptible to biocontrol via C. cupreum infect plants that are indigenous to Thailand?

Also you need a taxobox for your page! The code format can be found on the class wiki page. As for your 'facts to be organised' section, maybe you can put the information regarding C. cupreum response to light on to the morphology section? Or create a new heading just for it?

Cheyliew (talk) 03:19, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

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Hi Sienadellarossa,

I am one of your classmates from HMB436, and I have a few suggestions on how you can improve your article.

First, you might want to add a taxobox. The formatting for a taxobox is on our course Wikipedia page and you may be able to find information about your species on Mycobank. You also might want to link terms considered as jargon to their respective Wikipedia pages, to make the article easier to read for the average user.

Additionally, you might want to add a section on medical applications. I found an article discussing how some of the metabolites produced by Chaetomium cupreum can be used as an antifungal agent against Candida albicans, a common human fungal pathogen. I noticed you mentioned that your fungi is antimalarial, which you could also add to the medical applications section.

Your information about colony growth under different wavelengths of light could go under the Growth and Morphology heading.

Overall you have a lot of good points, many of which you might want to expand on as you continue your article, most notably the many hydrolytic enzymes and metabolites it produces.

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Alessia.d (talk) 04:00, 31 October 2015 (UTC)