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13 thermophilic genera and 19 species in addition to one variety of each of M. pulchella and H. grisea were collected from wheat and broad-bean straw composts at 45 °C. In wheat and broad-bean, all thermophilic fungi were completely checked between 4–9 days, and 1–8 days composting when the temperature ranged between 58° and 67 °C, and 58 ° and 70 °C respectively, and reappeared, represented by P. duponti, M. albomyces, T. lanuginosus and S. thermophile, after 9 or 10 days composting when the temperature decreased to 51.5° –54 ° C. Wheat and broad-bean straw composts were analysed biochemically to follow the changes in ethanol and diastase soluble, hemicellulose, cellulose and lignin fractions during composting.
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Moubasher, A.H., Abdel-Hafez, S.I.I., Abdel-Fattah, H.M. et al. Fungi of wheat and broad-bean straw composts. Mycopathologia 78, 169–176 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00466072
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