ISSN: 0973-7510

E-ISSN: 2581-690X

Sagarika Mohanta1 , G.D. Sharma1 and B. Deb2
1Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Life Science, Assam University, Silchar – 788 011, India.
2Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Botany, Gurucharan College, Silchar – 788 004, India.
J Pure Appl Microbiol. 2012;6(3):1403-1407
© The Author(s). 2012
Received: 18/02/2012 | Accepted: 21/04/2012 | Published: 30/09/2012
Abstract

Plant constitute vast and diverse niche for endophytic microbes. Endophytic bacteria reside within plants without causing disease symptoms. During the association the invading bacteria benefit the acquired host with a marked increase in plant growth, vigor and yield. The diversity of endophytic microbes to a large extent remains unexplored. In this study fresh roots of Cymbopogon species were used for the isolation of endophytic diazotrophic bacteria using standard methods. Cymbopogon species are widely used all over the India as an aromatic and medicinal plant. The most frequently endophytic diazotrophs isolated from Cymbopogon species are Klebsiella pneumoniae, Bacillus pumilus, Pseudomonas fluorescence and Burkholderia cenocepacia. Determining genetic relationship between the species or genera is very important for genetic improvement and phylogenetic studies. In silico study was  conducted  to understand the  major evolutionary relationships among the endophytic bacteria of Cymbopogon species using nucleotide sequence of 16s ribosomal RNA with other bacteria obtained from GenBank.

Keywords

Endophyte, Diazotroph, 16S rRNA, diversity, In silico

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