In the present study yeasts were successfully isolated from the decaying wood from the environs of Dharwad. The isolation techniques were slightly modified according to the needs with that of Lodder(1970).Techniques adopted were useful in getting the number of yeast isolates from the decaying wood(Table1).All the isolated yeasts were maintained on YM agar medium (Wickerham 1955)as mother cultures before subjecting for the identification.All the yeast strains were identified by the methods of Lodder (1970)and Bamett et al.(1983)using the conventional identification keys as mentioned in materials and methods(Malabadi1994;Malabadi and Raghavendra1994 1995).The identified yeast strains from the corresponding decaying wood were documented in Table 1.Out of eight samples,only five samples yielded yeast strains and were successfully identified as