Community Analysis of Endophytic Fungal strains Isolated from the Roots of Plants Inhabiting Mujechi-neup

Abstract

Wetlands exhibit intermediate characteristics of both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and the biodiversity is rich in these unique biological habitats. The symbiotic relationships between plants and fungi that inhabit these wetlands play an important role in natural resource management, biodiversity, and conservation. Accordingly, the mujechi, having academic value for the study of the natural environment, was investigated in terms of genetic diversity of endophytic fungi, which inhabit the roots of wild plants. The internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region was amplified to identify fungal strains. In total, 226 strains were isolated and categorized into three phyla, seven classes, 10 orders, 22 families, and 31 genera. In plants by endophytic fungi were classified in Isachne globosa (Ig) to 19 genera, Scirpus karuisawensis (Sk) to 11 genera, Utricularia racemosa (Ur) to 19 genera, and one incertae sedis, Eriocaulon decemflorum (Ed) to 11 genera. The fungal taxa was identified the genera Acephala (19.9%), Tolypocladium (16.3%), Neopestalotiopsis (11.5%), and Perenniporia (7.1%). The fungal group isolated from Isachne globosa (Ig) grew the largest number of isolated fungal strains. After comprehensive evaluation, the endophytic fungal group from Utricularia racemosa (Ur) ranked highest in diversity analyses. From the roots of wild plant in mujechi-neup, it confirmed the distribution and diversity of endophytic fungi. This study provides the basic data to understand fungal community structure in peat wetlands.

Culturable endophytes from carnivorous plant traps in the UK: commonality of endophyte species across host species and sites.

“…We con rm previous studies demonstrating that carnivorous plants contain fungal endophytes (Quilliam and Jones 2012; Lee, Ting, and Tan 2014; Glenn and Bodri 2012; Rueda-Almazán et al 2021;Cheon et al 2016) and add to a growing understanding that fungal endophytes are ubiquitous in carnivorous plant traps. We also report ve new endophyte species known to infect carnivorous plants, contributing to a growing knowledge of the diversity of plantfungal interactions in this unique group of plants.The endophytes identi ed are primarily common species, three of the four genera have previously been reported from carnivorous plants growing in French Guiana, India, Malaysia, Mexico, South Korea, the USA, and Wales: Alternaria(Naseem et al, 2021), Cladosporium (Leroy et al, 2021; Naseem et al, 2021; Quilliam and Jones 2012; Rueda-Almazán et al, 2021; Cheon et al, 2016)), and Colletotrichum (Leroy et al, 2021; Naseem et al, 2021; Lee, et al, 2014; Rueda-Almazán et al, 2021; Glenn and Bodri 2012; Cheon et al, 2016).…”

“…Over 800 carnivorous plant species have been described (Fleischmann et al, 2018), but remarkably few have been studied for their fungal endophytes: four species of Sarracenia (Glenn and Bodri 2012), three species of Nepenthes (Lee, et al, 2014;Naseem et al, 2021), two species of Pinguicula (Quilliam and Jones 2012; Rueda-Almazán et al, 2021), and one species each of Catopsis (Leroy et al, 2021), Drosera (Quilliam and Jones 2010), and Utricularia (Cheon et al, 2016). These studies typically focus on a single plant species growing at a single site.…”