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INDIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 51, Issue 4, Pages 469-476Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12088-011-0121-6
Keywords
Anti-microbial activity; Biodiversity; Fungal endophytes; Isolation media; Azadirachta indica
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- CSIR [EMR II 05-38/1104]
- UGC New Delhi
- Montana Agricultural Experiment Station
- US national Science Foundation
- Scott Strobel of Yale University
- BOYSCAST fellowship [SR/BY/L-02/06]
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Azadirachta indica A. Juss. (neem), native to India, is well known worldwide for its insecticidal and ethanopharmacological properties. Although endophytic microbes are known from this plant as only leaves and stems were the subjects of past reports. Now, a variety of procedures and a number of different media were used to isolate the maximum number of endophytic fungi from unripe fruits and roots. A total of 272 isolates of 29 filamentous fungal taxa were isolated at rate of 68.0% from 400 samples of three different individual trees (at locations-Az1, Az2, Az3). Mycological agar (MCA) medium yielded the highest number of isolates (95, with a 14.50% isolation rate) with the greatest species richness. Mycelia Sterilia (1, 2, 3) accounted for 11.06%, Coelomycetes 7.25%, while Hyphomycetes showed the maximum number of representative isolates (81.69%). Mycelia-Sterilia (1, 2, 3), based on their 5.8S ITS 1, ITS2 and partial 18S and 28S rDNA sequences were identified as Fusarium solani (99%), Chaetomium globosum (93%) and Chaetomium globosum (93%) respectively. Humicola, Drechslera, Colletotrichum, and Scytalidium sp. were some of the peculiar fungal endophytes recovered from this plant.
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