274993

Isolation and Biological Activity of Endophytic Fungi isolated from Arak Medicinal Plant (Salvadora persica)

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Last updated: 05 Jan 2025

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Basic sciences, new technology, engineering, applied sciences, and agriculture sciences.

Abstract

Endophytic fungi have recently been proven to possess active secondary metabolites, especially those colonizing medicinal plants like Salvadora persica. Eight endophytic fungi were isolated from S. persica, (Gliocladium catenulatum, Paecilomyces variotii , Penicillium bravicompatum , P. jensenii, Aspergillus fumigatus, A. parasiticus , A. niger and Verticillium albo-atrum). Six of these endophytes showed antagonistic activities against important plant pathogenic fungi, Fusarium verticilloides (5.91-18.23%), Alternaria alternata (10.5- 31.09 %) and Cochliobolus spicifer (16.94-28.93%) inhibition percentage in dual culture assay. The antimicrobial activity crude extracts of ethyle acetate and n-butanol of both G. catenulatum and P. variotii with three different concentrations (0.5 mg/ml,1.0 mg/ml, 2.0 mg/ml) were tested against the pathogenic fungi. Generally, ethyl acetate extract of both endophytic fungi had an inhibition effect on the pathogen growth higher than n-butanol extract. Thus, this is the first report to evaluate the antifungal effect of S. persica associated fungi as a biological control against fungal plant pathogen.

DOI

10.21608/aujst.2022.180186.1008

Keywords

Salvadora persica, Endophytes, fungi, secondary metabolites, Antifungal

Authors

First Name

Fatma

Last Name

Abdel-Motaal

MiddleName

Fakhry

Affiliation

Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Aswan University

Email

fatma.fakhry@aswu.edu.eg

City

Aswan

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0000-0003-1161-8925

First Name

Fatma

Last Name

Radi

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Aswan University

Email

fatmaradi91@yahoo.com

City

Aswan

Orcid

-

First Name

Magdi

Last Name

Elsayed

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Aswan University

Email

magdiel_sayed@aswu.edu.eg

City

Aswan

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-

Volume

2

Article Issue

2

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38033

Issue Date

2022-12-01

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2022-12-11

Publish Date

2022-12-01

Page Start

74

Page End

85

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2735-3087

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2735-3095

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2,312

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Aswan University Journal of Sciences and Technology

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Isolation and Biological Activity of Endophytic Fungi isolated from Arak Medicinal Plant (Salvadora persica)

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23 Jan 2023