Interests

• Ecological problems

          In a developing country like Egypt, application of pesticides for the control of soil-borne plant pathogenic fungi might cause adverse effects to plant growth as demonstrated by the significant changes in the metabolic activities of these plants. Applications of pesticides also, cause pollution, which has harmful effects on the human and animal life by unbalancing the nature. The effect that results from the application of pesticides may be extended to long time in the soil (half-life time of their degradation). The uses of some biotic groups present naturally in soil to biological control of other pathogenic biotic groups reduces the harmful effects of pesticides.

   

• Biotechnology and Molecular Microbiology

          In the field of biological control of soil-borne plant pathogens, the biological control of fungal sugarbeet root-rot, the fingerprint of Streptomyces spp. DNA has been outlined.

   

• Biodiversity of fungal flora in Egypt

   

• Lectures topics

  • Biodiversity of fungal biota in Egypt.
  • Biological control of soil-borne fungal pathogens using antagonistic Streptomyces spp. and fungal spp. 
  • Implication of cell wall-degrading enzymes with pathogenicity by soil-borne pathogenic fungi under salinity and herbicidal stresses.
  • Impact of herbicide stresses on growth and metabolic activities of some phytopathogenic fungi.
  • Utilization of Streptomyces spp. in biotechnological processes.
  • Mycotoxins.
  • Molecular diversity in Fungi

   

• PUBLICATIONS

• El-Abyad, M.S.; Abu-Taleb, A. M.; Abdel-Mawgoud, T. (1993). Impact of salinity stress on the response of host cultivar to cell wall-degrading enzymes of Rhizoctonia solani Kühn and Sclerotium rolfsii Sacc. in vivo and in vitro. 6^th International Congress of Plant Pathology, 28 July-6 August, Montréal (Québec), Canada.

• Moussa, T. A. A (1994). Preliminary studies on the production of pathogenicity enzymes by some sugarbeet pathogenic fungi under the stresses of salinity and herbicidal treatment. M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Cairo, pp. 132.

• El-Abyad, M.S.; Abu-Taleb, A. M.; Abdel-Mawgoud, T. (1996). Effect of the herbicide pyradur on host cell wall-degradation by the sugarbeet pathogens Rhizoctonia solani Kühn and Sclerotium rolfsii Sacc. Can. J. Bot. 74, 1407-1415.

• El-Abyad, M.S.; Abu-Taleb, A. M.; Abdel-Mawgoud, T. (1997). Response of host cultivar to cell wall-degrading enzymes of the sugarbeet pathogens Rhizoctonia solani Kühn and Sclerotium rolfsii Sacc. under salinity stress. Microbiological Research 152, 9-17.

• Moussa, T. A. A (2000). Towards the biological control of some root-rot fungal pathogens of sugarbeet in Egypt. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Cairo, p. 349.

• Moussa, T. A. A. and Rizk, M. A. (2001). Biological control of sugarbeet fungal pathogen Fusarium solani (Mart.) Sacc. using antagonistic Streptomyces aureofaciens. Az. J. Microbiol. 52, 1-15.

• Moussa, T. A. A and Shanab, S. M. M. (2001). Impact of cyanobacterial toxicity stress on the growth activities of some phytopathogenic Fusarium spp. Az. J. Microbiol. 53,

• Shalaby, A. M.; Rizk, M. A. and Moussa, T. A. A. (2001). Response of soil microflora and major elements content of wheat plants to potassium fertilization and/or Azospirillum brasilense inoculum. (In press).

• Moussa, T. A. A. and Rizk, M. A. (2001). Changes in the microflora of soil cultivated with wheat plants and supplemented with sunflower extract. (In Press).
• Moussa, T. A. A. and Rizk, M. A. (2001). Molecular microbial diversity of soil cultivated with wheat by sequencing of cloned PCR-amplified genes encoding 18S rRNA and temperature gradient gel electrophoresis (In Press).

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