numerous and darker on the older cultures (Fig. 1c).
This fungus was identified based on the analysis of the nucleotide
sequence of the nuclear ribosomal ITS1-5.8-ITS2 region
(630 bp amplicon). 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
(GenBank accession numbers KJ472923). 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.