Icrobiologists of IndiaAbstract Muscodor albus MOW12, an endophytic fungus isolated from
Icrobiologists of IndiaAbstract Muscodor albus MOW12, an endophytic fungus isolated from Piper nigrum in Mawlong, Meghalaya, India, resembles some cultural and hyphal qualities of previous isolates of Muscodor sp. In addition, it possesses about 99 similarity in its ITS rDNA with other M. albus isolates and therefore is nicely centered within the genetic tree to other Muscodor spp. This xylariaceae fungus efficiently inhibits and kills certain plant pathogenic fungi by virtue of a mixture of volatile compounds that it produces. The majority of those compounds were identified by gas chromatographymass spectrometry as compact molecular weight esters, alcohols, and acids. The key ester components of this isolate of M. albus in its volatile mixture are acetic acid, ethyl ester; propanoic acid, 2-methyl-, methyl ester and acetic acid, 2-methylpropyl ester. This appears to become the first report of any M. albus strain from India. Key phrases Endophyte Fungi Muscodor albus Piper nigrum Volatile organic compoundIntroduction Muscodor albus, Woropong, Strobel Hess strain CZ620, a volatile organic compound (VOC)-producing fungus, was 1st isolated from Cinnamomum zeylanicum from a rainforest of Honduras inside the late 1990s [1]. It produces severalD. Banerjee ( ) A. Pandey M. Jana Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Botany and Forestry, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore 721 102, West Bengal, India e-mail: debu33yahoo G. Strobel Division of Plant Science, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USAvolatile compounds which, as a mixture, are both inhibitory and, for the most element, lethal to a broad array of pathogenic fungi and bacteria [2]. Distinctive isolates of Muscodor sp. create unique sets of volatile compounds [2]. There are numerous reports on VOC production by microorganisms, numerous of these VOCs are prevalent to numerous microorganisms, whereas other people appear to become exclusive for one species [5]. You can find a restricted variety of VOC-producing fungi possessing any biological activity with their volatile compounds. As isolates of M. albus can inhibit and kill a broad array of each bacterial and fungal pathogens in practical test scenarios, they are getting thought of for use in agriculture, healthcare and industrial applications [2]. Mycofumigation with M. albus against a pathogen was already reported in smut-infected barley seeds and one hundred ADAM10 MedChemExpress illness manage was reported [1]. It was also applied for the remedy of fruits in storage and in transit [9]. Soil treatments have also been successfully made use of in each field and greenhouse conditions [10]. Patents with this organism have been granted to handle damaging microbes in human and animal wastes [11] and to make use of in agriculture [12] and also in seed and grain sanitation [13]. Muscodor albus is entirely sterile; spores or fungal fruiting bodies were by no means observed when the fungus was examined below unique K-Ras drug Laboratory situations [14, 15]. Till the present the majority of the Muscodor species are reported from tropical locations of Asia and South America, but there’s no report of this organism in India. In this communication, we report a brand new strain of M. albus, designated as MOW12, possessing genetic, biological and morphological similarities with M. albus strain I41-3s, which inhibits and kills a lot of plant pathogens [16]. Muscodor albus strain MOW12 also has a exclusive set of VOCs and biological activities and, for the initial time, this organism has been isolated from a plant current in India. Presently there are lots of patents which have i.