Within the framework of the continuous support of the university administration for all the fourteen colleges of the university, which includes elite faculty members in various fields, as well as the keenness of the university administration to inform the surrounding community of the scientific research carried out by university scientists related to the ground, the university administration is pleased to announce the publication of New scientific research for the world about a new mushroom on behalf of Damietta University. In this regard,  Professor Dr. El-Sayed Mohamad Dadour , the president of the University,  extends his sincere congratulations and highest thanks and appreciation to Dr. Hoda Mohamed El-Gharabawi, a microbiologist in the Department of Botany and Microbiology at the Faculty of Science, who wrote a new success story by presenting a new research to the whole world about the new mushroom Crystallicutis damiettensis, which appears for the first time In Egypt only and bears the name of Damietta University in relation to the place of its registration “as mentioned in the research damiettensis, refers to Damietta University where this fungus spreads in the fruit plantations of the Nile Delta region and causes the decomposition of date palm trees. Dr. Hoda Al-Gharabawi made strenuous research efforts throughout the preparation and study period for this research, which lasted 8 years from 2013-2020, when she discovered this fungus during a study of a group of basidiomycetes that cause infection, decomposition and diseases of a group of wood and fruit trees in the delta region, where problems of decomposing a group were discovered. Trees of economic value, in particular palm trees, lemons, oranges and mangoes, based on the complaints received from farmers in the delta region. Dr. Hoda Al-Gharabawi tracked, collected and studied the fungus in Egypt, while physiological, anatomical and genetic research procedures were carried out through the scientific mission outside the country from February 2020 until March 2021, until its sovereignty proved that it was a new strain compared to the globally proven strains.

In terms of the global impact of research; The research also contributed to the recharacterization and naming of another global group of fungi 'which includes two previously established fungi' belonging to the new genus Crystallicutis. All the new names have been verified in the Index Fungorum and all the genes studied in the Genebank under the name El-Gharabawy HM Damietta University.

The study was also published in Science Direct’s Q1 ranked Fungal Biology for the year 2021 AD in cooperation with fungal researchers from the universities of Britain and Denmark, in collaboration with Dr. University of Copenhagen, Denmark.