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Environment and the Distribution of Microfungi in a Hawaiian Mangrove Swampl BENNY K Environment and the Distribution of Microfungi in a Hawaiian Mangrove Swampl BENNY K. H. LEE2 AND GLADYS E. BAKER2 EXTENSIVE INVESTIGATIONS of the ecological effect of temperature and salinity on the growth relationships of soil microfungi with soil types, rate of these fungi. Further study concerned pH, moisture, horizon, temperature, and macro­ the effects of mangrove root extract and man· vegetation have been published (Parkinson and grove swamp soil extract on fungal growth. Waid, 1960; Alexander, 1961; and Burges and Raw, 1967). It is a well-established principle MATERIALS AND METHODS that soil fungi are influenced by specific soil environments. Mangroves occupy a littoral hab­ Test Organisms itat, characterized almost invariably by salt or Five fungi were selected from different brackish water and coastal silt. The microfungi salinity levels in the Heeia mangrove swamp. in the mangrove swamp must be able to tolerate All were used in the salinity tolerance tests; the the conditions characteristic of this special first three were used to determine the inter­ ecosystem: Their distribution in particular may action of salinity and temperature. be affected by the salinity of the mangrove ISOLATES FROM HIGH SALINITY SITES: Robil­ swamp (Swart, 1958; and Kohlmeyer, 1969). larda rhizophorae Kohlm. was isolated from Tolerance to different salinity levels may cor­ submerged dead prop roots of Rhizophora relate with temperature levels as demonstrated mangle 1. at the seaward side of Heeia swamp by Ritchie (1957, 1959) in a series of in vitro near the fishpond. The Idcation corresponds experiments. For those microfungi occurring in to station 5 of Walsh (1967). Salinity readings association with the mangrove roots, it is also obtained monthly between August 1961 and necessary to consider the influence of the root November 1962 varied from 0.73 to 29.34 itself and the rhizosphere effect. The latter is %0 (low tide) and from 18.88 to 41.9 (high designated as the region of soil subject to the %0 tide) according to Walsh. Soil salinity at the immediate influence of plant roots (Katznelson, collecting site was 30 on 29 March 1970. Lochhead, and Timonin, 1948). %0 Dendryphiella salina (Sutherland) Pugh & A series of in vitro tests was undertaken to Nicot was isolated from the rhizosphere soil of determine the relationship of environmental Rhizophora mangle seedlings at the same loca­ conditions to the distribution of fungi in the tion as Robillarda rhizophorae. Heeia mangrove swamp on Oahu, Hawaii. Test fungi were selected from isolates obtained from ISOLATES FROM LOWER SALINITY (BRACKISH) brackish to marine habitats and included species SITES : Trichoderma viride Pers. was isolated growing on roots of Rhizophora mangle 1. and from the mangrove swamp soil in the seaward in mangrove (R. mangle) swamp soil. Studies area where soil salinity tests made on 8 July were designed to determine levels of salinity 1968 and 2 November 1969 read approximately tolerance for each species and the combined 14.0%0 (Lee, 1971). Penicillium vermiculatum Dangeard and Circinella simplex Van Tieghem 1 Based on part of a dissertation presented by the were isolated from the mangrove swamp soil senior author in partial fulfillment of the require­ ments for the PhD. degree in botanical sciences at the inland area where soil salinity tests at the University of Hawaii. This investigation was made on 8 July 1968 and 2 November 1969 supported by Public Health Service grant no. GM read 5.2 and 5.9 %0, respectively. 15198 from the National Institutes of Health. Robillarda rhizophorae, Dendryphiella sa­ Manuscript received 9 June 1971. 2 University of Hawaii, Department of Botany, lina, and Trichoderma viride were the three Honolulu, Hawaii 96822. species selected as the test organisms for the 11 12 PACIFIC SCIENCE, Volume 26, January 1972 study of the combined effect of salinity and viride were studied in petri dish culture using temperature. Emerson's YpSs agar (Difco 0739) and sea­ To study the influence of mangrove root and water to give salinjty concentrations of 6, 12, soil extracts on growth, we used six species 18, 27, 36, and 72 %0. Each petri dish was and two strains as the test organisms, namely inoculated at the center with a loopful of spore Robillarda rhizophorae, a mangrove root suspension prepared in sterile distilled water. isolate; Circinella simplex, Pycnidiophora multi­ Cultures were incubated at 10, 20, 25, 30, and spora (Saito & Minoura) Thompson & Backus, 37° C for 12 days except T. viride which was and Fusarium oxysporttm Schlechtendahl, all grown for 4 days. Growth was recorded in mangrove soil isolates; and both mangrove root terms of colony diameter, measured from the (Rhizophora mangle) and soil isolates of hyphal tips on one advancing edge to the op­ Cylindrocladium parvum Anderson and Tri­ posite edge. All experiments were performed choderma viride. in triplicate. Root or soil extract was used in the basal Basal Medium and Culturing Methods medium as 500 ml per liter to determine the The basal medium was a broth based on effects of mangrove root and soil extracts on Emerson's YpSs agar (Difco 0739) which con­ fungal growth. The basal medium served as the tained, per liter: yeast extract, 4 g; starch, 15 g; control medium. Mangrove root extract was dipotassium phosphate, 1 g; magnesium sulfate, prepared from the roots of 1-year-old mangrove 0.5 g. seedlings. The roots were washed in running Natural seawater with a salinity of 36 %0, water, air-dried for 1 day, and weighed. About as measured by an electrical conductivity method 200 g of dried roots were soaked in 1 liter of (Chapman and Pratt, 1961), was used for the distilled water for 3 days. The solution then salinity tolerance and temperature study. Media was filtered through cheesecloth and Whatman of varying salinity levels were achieved either filter paper no. 1. The pH of the root extract by dilution with distilled water or by partial was adjusted from the initial pH 5.7 to pH evaporation and reconstitution to desired 7.0 by 1 N NaOH. Half of the extract was strengths. The final salinity concentrations were sterilized by passage through a 0.45-,"" Milli­ 1.0 (with distilled water), 6, 12, 18, 27, 36, pore filter and the remainder by autoclaving and 72 %0. The pH of the media varied from at 15 psi and 121 ° C for 20 minutes. Soil ex­ 6.8 to 7.1. tratt was prepared by adding 1 kg of mangrove Each of the fungi to be tested was grown in (Rhizophora mangle) swamp soil to 1 liter triplicate in 25 ml of liquid medium in 125-ml of tap water. The slurry was filtered repeatedly Erlenmeyer flasks and placed on a New Bruns­ until clear and the filtrate brought up to 1 liter wick gyratory shaker (200 rpm) at room tem­ with tap water. Unfortunately, the extract perature (24° to 26° C) for 7 days. Flasks would not pass a 0.45-',"" Millipore filter so it were inoculated aseptically with three loops of was autoclaved at 15 psi and 121 ° C for 20 spore suspension prepared in sterile distilled minutes after adjustment of the pH to 7.0 from water. After seven days mycelia from each the initial pH 6.8 by 1 N NaOH. Methods of flask were harvested by suction filtration on inoculation and the measurement of fungal tared filter paper, washed in distilled water, growth were the same as those used in the dried at 85° C for 2 days, and weighed. The salinity tolerance study. measurement of growth was recorded as the mean of three replicates and its standard error. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION The salinity tolerance test for Robillarda rhizo­ phorae was repeated to confirm the maximum Salinity Tolerances and Effect of Temperature level of salinity tolerance. The growth responses of the five fungi sub­ The combined effects of salinity and tem­ jected to various concentrations of seawater at perature on the growth of Robillarda rhizo­ 24° to 26° C are shown in Fig. 1. The fungi phorae, Dendryphiella salina, and Trichoderma which came from three different habita's Environment and Distribution of Microfungi-LEE AND BAKER 13 + - + Robillarda rhizophorae 0--0 Dendryphiella salina 300 A-,-- A Circinella simplex • --. Trichoderma viride 0--0 Penicillium 250 vermicu1atum t---- ... Repeated ex­ perimerit for phoraeR. rhizo­ 200 til C\l C\l .,-l a; 150 o £ 4-l o .aJ .!: bO .,-l (IJ 100 ~ :>-. !-< "0 ~ C\l * 50 o '-A 1.0 6 12 18 27 36 45 54 63 72 Salinity (0/00) FIG. 1. Growth responses of five fungi to various concentrations of seawater (salinity 36 %0) obtained by appropriate dilution with distilled water or concentration of natural seawater at room temperature (24°_26° C), measured as dry weight of mycelia after 7 days. roughly can be grouped as two from a high­ except Penicillium vermiculatum was stimulated salinity area (30 %0) and three from lower at low salinity (6 %0)' although Trichoderma salinities corresponding to brackish situations viride was stimulated only slightly. The three (5.2 to 14 %0)' The growth of all the fungi brackish isolates responded with similar growth 14 PACIFIC SCIE:NCE, Volume 26, January 197:2 patterns as did the two isolates from higher cinella simplex exhibited reduced growth at salinities. 6 %0 and 18 %0, respectively. In nature, the Robillarda rhizophorae and Dendryphiella sa­ soil salinity level at the location of these two lina exhibited a rather intensive response to species was 5.2 to 5.9 %0. The dry weight of varying concentrations of seawater. They showed mycelia of Penicillium vermiculatum at 27 %0 increased growth from 6 to 27 %0 salinity and Circinella simplex at 36 %0 was reduced with maximum growth for Robillarda rhizo­ to less than half that of the control.
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