Does the essential oil of Lippia sidoides Cham. (pepper-rosmarin) affect its endophytic microbial community?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lippia sidoides Cham., also known as pepper-rosmarin, produces an essential oil in its leaves that is currently used by the pharmaceutical, perfumery and cosmetic industries for its antimicrobial and aromatic properties. Because of the antimicrobial compounds (mainly thymol and carvacrol) found in the essential oil, we believe that the endophytic microorganisms found in L. sidoides are selected to live in different parts of the plant.

Results

In this study, the endophytic microbial communities from the stems and leaves of four L. sidoides genotypes were determined using cultivation-dependent and cultivation-independent approaches. In total, 145 endophytic bacterial strains were isolated and further grouped using either ERIC-PCR or BOX-PCR, resulting in 76 groups c

SUBMITTER: da Silva TF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3626855 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature