Table 2.

Morphological colony characteristics and sporulation pattern of fungal isolates on different culture media.

Isolate	Media	Colony diam (mm)	Colony characters			Zonation	Sporulation	Reaction on CREA	Identified as	Reference
			Texture	Surface colour	Reverse colour
IG 1	CDA	47.33 ± 3.05	Velvety	White with dusty yellow sporulating area	White	Slightly Radially furrowed	Moderate	Moderate growth and good acid production (large yellow halo around colony)	Aspergillus niger	Sharma and Pandey, 2010
	CYA	47.00 ± 1.00	Powdery	White periphery with black spores	Yellowish	Radially furrowed	Heavy
	MYA	59.00 ± 3.60	Powdery	White periphery with black spores	Cream	Radially furrowed at the centre	Moderate
	CY2S	71.00 ± 2.65	Powdery	White periphery with black spores	Cream	Heavily wrinkled	Heavy
IG 2	CDA	34.33 ± 1.15	Velvety	White with grayish green concentric sporulating rings	Cream	Concentric zones	Poor	Poor growth and low acid production	A. fumigatus	McClenny, 2005
	CYA	52.00 ± 1.73	Powdery	Cream periphery grayish green sporulating area	Yellowish	Radially furrowed	Heavy
	MYA	47.33 ± 2.08	Powdery	Cream with green periphery and grayish green sporulating area	Yellowish	Radially furrowed	Moderate
	CY2S	73.66 ± 3.21	Powdery	Cream periphery grayish green sporulating area	Cream	Wrinkled and radially furrowed	Heavy
IG 3	CDA	55.66 ± 0.58	Velvety	White with brownish sporulating area	White	irregularly furrowed	Moderate	Moderate growth and good acid production (large yellow halo around colony)	A. awamori	Perrone et al., 2011
	CYA	43.33 ± 1.15	Powdery	White periphery with dark brown sporulating area	Cream	Heavily radially furrowed	Heavy
	MYA	57.66 ± 2.08	Velvety	White periphery with dark brown sporulating area	Cream	Heavily radially furrowed	Moderate
	CY2S	67.33 ± 1.53	Velvety	White periphery with dark brown sporulating area	Cream	Wrinkled	Moderate
IG 4	CDA	45.33 ± 1.15	Floccose	Green periphery with green sporulating area	Yellow	Radially furrowed	Poor	Moderate growth and good acid production (large yellow halo around colony)	A. terreus	Zain et al., 2009
	CYA	44.33 ± 1.53	Velvety	White with dark green sporulating area	Light orange	Radially furrowed	Poor
	MYA	55.66 ± 2.31	Powdery	Green periphery with dark green sporulating area	Peach	Radially furrowed	Moderate
	CY2S	75.00 ± 1.00	Powdery	Green periphery with dark green sporulating area	Light orange	Irregularly furrowed	Heavy