First Record of Endophytic fungi Thielavia basicola Isolated from Xerophyte Plants Suaeda aegyptiaca in Basra, Iraq

Abstract

This study was conducted with the aim of isolating endophytic fungi from the xerophyte plant Suaeda aegyptiaca. In this study, Thielavia basicola was isolated from the stem of the plant S. aegyptiaca spread in Basrah city, fungus was identified basis on its morphological features and molecular based on amplification of the ITS gene region and the nucleotide sequence of the fungus was deposited in the Genebank under the accession number MT277121.1. The metabolites of the fungal filtrate T. basicola were identified using by GC-MS technology and the results showed that this fungus produces 40 compounds as extracellular secondary metabolites, the most important of which are 9-Octadecenamide, (Z)- and Tributylacetylcitrate and N-Hexadecanoic acid. This is the first study in which T. basicola is isolated from S. aegyptiaca from desert in Iraq.