(Fig. 1c). The analysis of DNA sequence similarity among sequences lodged in GenBank revealed that the ITS region of C11 have a 97% homology to that of C. globosum reference strains
Fig. 2 presents the phylogenetic dendrogram obtained for this strain. The genus Chaetomium is a representative model of the cellulosic soft rot fungi. Indeed, the species C. globosum has a broad range of applications in agriculture and industry. It has been used as a biocontrol agent against pathogenic microbes (Qi et al., 2011).
Furthermore, C. globosum was potentially applied for producing biofuel from lignocellulosic materials (Longoni et al., 2012). Although, this strain has a broad range of applications but few research works have incorporated it such an agent suitable to degrade and decolorize an ITE contaminated by dyes.