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        <journal-meta>
            <journal-id journal-id-type="issn">0973-7510</journal-id>
            <journal-title-group>
                <journal-title>Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology</journal-title>
            </journal-title-group>
            <issn pub-type="epub">2581-690X</issn>
            <publisher>
                <publisher-name>DR. M.N. Khan</publisher-name>
            </publisher>
        </journal-meta>
        <article-meta>
            <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22207/JPAM.12.2.12</article-id>
            <title-group>
                <article-title>Mycosynthesis of Nano-Ag/Ag2O as Anti-Phytopathogens Agent
using Endophytic Aspergillus fumigatus Strain EAF102</article-title>
            </title-group>
            <contrib-group>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>H. EL-Moslamy</surname>
                        <given-names>Shahira</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/>
                </contrib>
                		
            </contrib-group>
			
			
            <aff id="aff-1">Bioprocess Development Dept., Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research
Institute (GEBRI), City of Scientific Research and Technology Applications (SRTA-City),
New Borg El-Arab city, Alexandria, Egypt.</aff>
	 
			
			
            <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2018-06-30">
                <day>30</day>
                <month>06</month>
                <year>2018</year>
            </pub-date>
            <volume>12</volume>
            <issue>2</issue>
            <fpage>533</fpage>
            <lpage>542</lpage>
            <permissions>
                <copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 2018 The Author(s)</copyright-statement>
                <copyright-year>2018</copyright-year>
                <license license-type="open-access"
                    xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
                    <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.<uri 
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            <self-uri xlink:href="https://www.microbiologyjournal.org/mycosynthesis-of-nano-ag-ag2o-as-anti-phytopathogens-agent-using-endophytic-aspergillus-fumigatus-strain-eaf102/"/>
            <abstract>
                <p>Nowadays, there are many studies reported the mycosynthesis of nanoparticles by
using rhizospheric and epiphytic fungi but there are a few reports using endophytic fungi.
So the present work focuses on the mycosynthesis of nano-Ag using endophytic Aspergillus
fumigatus strain EAF102 that evaluated for its antifungal efficiency. The fabricated nano-Ag
was initially detected by the brown color and UV-VIS spectroscopy that showed the nanosilver
peak at 450nm. The structural and morphological properties of the nano-Ag/Ag2O were
evaluated by SEM, TEM, XRD, FTIR, EDX and TGA analysis. The mycosynthesized nano- Ag/
Ag2O reaction was improved via Taguchi approach and increased 3.9 times larger than the
basal reaction condition. The optimized fabrication reaction was set up as following: 1mM
of the precursor was added to 25% (v/v) of reductant then this mixture pH was adjusted at 8.0
and the incubation temperature was controlled at 600C under shaking condition (250 rpm). A
confirmation test resulted in the maximum nano-Ag/Ag2O was 44.295 ± 5.27 g/l and its S/N ratio
was 33.51± 4.20 dB that considered as a very good agreement with the predicted results. The
high activities of mycosynthesized nano-Ag/Ag2O (11-15 nm) that used as antiphytopathogens
were ordered as follows: Alternaria alternate (3.5±0.36), Fusarium moniliforme (2.2±0.45,)
Fusarium graminearum (1.5±0.25), Fusarium semitectum (0.58±0.13), Fusarium oxysporum
(0.5±0.23), and Phytophthora arenaria (0.45±0.14). Finally, a simple, fast, and eco-friendly
method for mycofabrication of nano-Ag/Ag2O by using endophytic Aspergillus fumigatus strain
EAF102 was successfully discovered and improved via this study.
		</p>
		</abstract>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Endophytic Aspergillus fumigatus</kwd>
        <kwd>Mycosynthesis reaction</kwd>
			<kwd>Nano-Ag/Ag2O</kwd>
			<kwd>Antiphytopathogens</kwd>
			<kwd>Taguchi approach</kwd>
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