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The fungal endobiome of seaweeds of the Andaman Islands, India


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1 Vivekananda Institute of Tropical Mycology, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith, Chennai 600 004, India, India
2 Department of Biotechnology, Manipal School of Life Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal 576 104, India, India
3 Jawaharlal Nehru Rajkeeya Mahavidyalaya College, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands 744 101, India, India
 

Seventeen seaweed species (two green algae, nine brown algae and six red algae) of the Andaman Islands, India, were studied for their culturable fungal endophyte assemblage. A total of 796 endophytic isolates (67 species of fungi belonging to 22 genera and 10 sterile forms) were recovered from the 17 seaweeds. All the fungi were marine-derived forms and many belonged to Eurotio­mycetes and Sordariomycetes of the Ascomycota group. More species of Aspergillus, Fusarium, Penicillium and Trichoderma were present as endophytes. While most endophytic species recovered were present in low frequency, some fungi like Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus sp. 1, Nodulisporium sp., Pestalotiopsis sp., Trichoderma yunnanense and Xylaria sp. 1 exhibited more than 40% frequency of colonization. Apart from yielding the maximum number of endophytic isolates, different Trichoderma species showed the highest colonization frequency in 11 of the 17 seaweeds. The results of this study indicate that fungi belonging to Eurotiomycetes which occur in low frequency as endophytes in terrestrial plants represent a significant percentage in the seaweeds and that the environment might have a more critical role than host specificity in determining the endophyte community of seaweed mycobiome

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Algal endophytes, eurotiomycetes, marine algae, Sordariomycetes, Trichoderma.
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  • The fungal endobiome of seaweeds of the Andaman Islands, India

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M. B. Govinda Rajulu
Vivekananda Institute of Tropical Mycology, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith, Chennai 600 004, India, India
T. Rajamani
Vivekananda Institute of Tropical Mycology, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith, Chennai 600 004, India, India
T. S. Murali
Department of Biotechnology, Manipal School of Life Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal 576 104, India, India
T. S. Suryanarayanan
Vivekananda Institute of Tropical Mycology, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith, Chennai 600 004, India, India
Dairick Minj
Jawaharlal Nehru Rajkeeya Mahavidyalaya College, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands 744 101, India, India

Abstract


Seventeen seaweed species (two green algae, nine brown algae and six red algae) of the Andaman Islands, India, were studied for their culturable fungal endophyte assemblage. A total of 796 endophytic isolates (67 species of fungi belonging to 22 genera and 10 sterile forms) were recovered from the 17 seaweeds. All the fungi were marine-derived forms and many belonged to Eurotio­mycetes and Sordariomycetes of the Ascomycota group. More species of Aspergillus, Fusarium, Penicillium and Trichoderma were present as endophytes. While most endophytic species recovered were present in low frequency, some fungi like Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus sp. 1, Nodulisporium sp., Pestalotiopsis sp., Trichoderma yunnanense and Xylaria sp. 1 exhibited more than 40% frequency of colonization. Apart from yielding the maximum number of endophytic isolates, different Trichoderma species showed the highest colonization frequency in 11 of the 17 seaweeds. The results of this study indicate that fungi belonging to Eurotiomycetes which occur in low frequency as endophytes in terrestrial plants represent a significant percentage in the seaweeds and that the environment might have a more critical role than host specificity in determining the endophyte community of seaweed mycobiome

Keywords


Algal endophytes, eurotiomycetes, marine algae, Sordariomycetes, Trichoderma.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv123%2Fi12%2F1508-1514