The Fungi Concerned in Fiber Deterioration

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Abstract
On the basis of a survey of the literature and of test results here reported on more than 400 fungus isolates, cellulose-decomposing activity is shown to be very widely distributed but not universal among the fungi. It occurs with a high degree of regularity among isolates of certain genera-e.g., Alternaria, Chaetomium, Curvularia, Fusarium, Gliomastix, Helmintho sporium, Humicola, Memnoniella, Stachybotrys, and Trichoderma, and probably with equal fre quency in other genera which have not been so extensively studied. It occurs in a greater or smaller number of species in many of the several groups or subdivisions of the genus Aspergillus but apparently not in all of them, in a much smaller but rather widely diverse group of species in the genus Penicillium, apparently not at all in Mucor, Rhizopus, and other genera of the Mucoraceae, and probably only rarely among the actinomycetes.

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