Antibacterial metabolites from Bipolaris specifera, an endophytic fungus from the endemic medicinal plant, Zingiber nimmonii (J. Graham) Dalzell.

ABSTRACT: Eleven fungal endophytes were isolated from the plant parts of Z. nimmonii (J. Graham) Dalzell, an endemic species of the Western Ghats, India, a biodiversity hotspot area. The endophytic isolates were characterized by the sequencing of the Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) regions and designated as strains by depositing ITS sequences in the Gen Bank sequence database. All the strains were cultured in Potato Dextrose broth (PDB, 500 mL) contained in Erlenmeyer flasks to obtain the secondary metabolites. The culture filtrate was extracted with ethyl-acetate (EA) three times and concentrated by flash evaporation to obtain EA crude dry extract. The strains were evaluated for the antibacterial potentials against six pathogenic bacterial strains viz., Bacillus subtilis (MTC

SUBMITTER: Das M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7316947 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature