Diversity of endophytic fungi from the ornamental plant – Adenium obesum
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Department of Botany, Virudhunagar Hindhu Nadar Senthikumara Nadar College, Virudhunagar– 626 001
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Department of Botany, Vivekananda College, Tiruvedakam West, Madurai – 625 234
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Department of Microbial Technology, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai – 625 021, Tamil Nadu, India
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Corresponding author:
A Rajendran, arvhnsnbotany@yahoo.co.in
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Received:
02 December 2015
Revised:
20 February 2016
Published online:
28 February 2016
Studies in Fungi
1(1): 34−42(2016) |
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Abstract
Endophytic fungi live internally in apparently healthy and asymptomatic hosts. They are ubiquitous; no study has yet shown the existence of a plant species without endophytes. High species diversity is another characteristic of endophytic mycota. It is quite common for endophyte surveys to find assemblages consisting of more than 30species per host plant species.In the present study, 179 isolates were obtained from leaf, stem, and tissues of Adenium obesum collected from Virudhunagar, India. The endophytic fungi were identified based on the colony morphology and sporulating structures. Aspergillus sp. (28.5%), Aspergilus breviceps (30%), Colletotrichum gloeosporioides (23%) and Scorpulariopsis brevicalis (17%) were the most dominant species. The colonization frequency was higher in the winter season. Phyllosticta hymanaeae was isolated from leaf tissues during the summer and winter season. Aspergillus was the predominant genus isolated from all of leaf, stem and bark tissues of Adenium obesum.
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A Meenatchi, V Ramesh, Bagyalakshmi, R Kuralarasi, V Shanmugaiah, A Rajendran. 2016. Diversity of endophytic fungi from the ornamental plant – Adenium obesum. Studies in Fungi 1(1):34−42 doi: 10.5943/sif/1/1/3
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A Meenatchi, V Ramesh, Bagyalakshmi, R Kuralarasi, V Shanmugaiah, A Rajendran. 2016. Diversity of endophytic fungi from the ornamental plant – Adenium obesum. Studies in Fungi 1(1):34−42 doi: 10.5943/sif/1/1/3
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