DIVERSITY OF ENDOPHYTIC FUNGI ASSOCIATED WITH FRUITS AND LEAVES OF TAMARIND (Tamarindusindica L.) BASED O N ITS RIBOSOMAL DNA SEQUENCES

Abstract

Plant-associated microbes are among essential natural resources that abundantly exist in a natural environment, such as endophyuc fungi. Studies on endophytic fungi in medicinal plants have allowed the discovery of numerous fungi species and their hidden potentials. Therefore, this study focused on the isolation and identification of endophyuc fungi from several plant parts of tamarind (T. indica), such as leaves and fruits. A total of 69 fungal cultures were successfully isolated and identified into 31 distinct species from 15 genera based on morphological characteristics and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequence analysis using a Maximum Likelihood method. A high diversity of endophytic fungi associated with T. indica were observed by Shannon-Wiener index H' (3.083). There were six different species obtained from the genus

Biochemical Analysis and Characterization of Silver Nanoparticles Synthesized by the Endophytic Fungus Plectosphaerella oligotrophica S8A26 Associated with Anaphalis contorta

“…[20] conducted a study in a tropical forest in Indonesia and isolated 21 endophytic fungi from the roots of Paraserianthes falcataria. In a similar study, [21] isolated 31 endophytic fungi from the leaves and fruits of Tamarindus indica collected from Malaysia, belonging to 15 genera. Different types of Plectosphaerella have been found to live on aquatic plants in southwest China [22]; Plectosphaerella guizhouensis and Plectosphaerella nauculaspora [23]; Plectosphaerella oligotrophica from Panax bipinnatifidus [24]; Plectosphaerella cucumerina from Cynanchum auriculatum [25]; and Plectosphaerella niemeij are all types of Plectosphaerella.…”