A study on enhanced production of 3-demethylated colchicine by a novel strain of Bacillus endophyticus isolated from rhizospheric soils of Gloriosa superba

Authentication of putative competitive bacterial endophytes of rice by re-isolation and DNA fingerprinting assay

“…To validate our hypothesis, the ecological niches of these endophytes, as reported earlier, were correlated with our data. Bacillus endophyticus was first reported as an endophyte of the cotton plant (Reva et al, 2002) and later found as an endophyte of several plants, including sugarcane (Pirhadi et al, 2018), cotton (Vinodkumar et al, 2018), onion (Ibrahim et al, 2020), mung bean, cowpea and soybean nodules (Bakhtiyarifar et al, 2021), Chinese mountain legumes (Pang et al, 2021), groundnut (Pal et al, 2021), medicinal plants like Salvadora persica (Moustafa et al, 2016), Vernonia anthelmintica (Rustamova et al, 2020), Gloriosa superba (Das et al, 2021) and halophyte Salicornia europaea (Zhao et al, 2016). This species was also isolated from wheat rhizosphere (Ibarra‐Villarreal et al, 2021; Verma et al, 2016), sugarcane rhizosphere (Mukhtar et al, 2017), rice phyllosphere (Devarajan Arun et al, 2020), termatorium soil (Chauhan et al, 2016), and honeydew of cotton whitefly (Roopa et al, 2014).…”