Screening for Endophytic Fungi with Antibacterial Efficiency from Moringa Oleifera and Withania Somnifera

• DOI: 10.37398/jsr.2020.640118
• Publication Date: 2020-02-11T11:14:41Z
• Authors: Neelam Atri; Nilesh Rai; Anurag Kumar Singh; Madhu Verma; Suvakanta Barik; Vibhav Gautam; Santosh Kumar Singh
• Keywords: Moringa

Plants have a great potential to grow while carrying inside them fungi and bacteria known as endophytes.These endophytes produce bioactive molecules which are of immense pharmaceutical importance.In the current study, plants having medicinal properties such Moringa oleifera Withania somnifera were explored for studying endophytic associated with them.Moringa widely their nutritional values.The fungal associations these revealed efficacy in therapeutic field.In strains extracted by incubating dried plant samples on potato dextrose agar media, supplemented streptomycin at 28 °C 5-10 days.A total 21 24 isolated from herbal somnifera, respectively.Microscopic study four active M. i.e.Colletotrichum sp.(MO-S2), Cladosporium sp.(MO-S4, MO-L3) Fusarium sp.(MO-R1), two W. i.e.Alternaria sp.(WS-S8) sp.(WS-R5).Active further screened antibacterial activity against pathogenic gram negative bacterial strain Escherichia coli (ATCC 25922) positive Staphylococcus aureus (ATCC25323).Our results showed that isolates (MO-S2) (WS-S8) had both strains.However, three (MO-L3, MO-S4, MO-R1) one (WS-R5) E. coli.