Helminthosporium sacchari infects certain clones of sugar cane and produces a toxin with the same plant selectivity as the fungus itself. The toxin was purified by use of activated charcoal plus thin layer, gel, and ion exchange chromatography. Gas chromatography (GC) of a trimethylsilyl derivative of toxin gave a single peak. Toxin was characterized by GC, mass spectroscopy (MS), and NMR spect...

Salinity stress is a major limiting factor that adversely affects the crop productivity. Considering these problems, present investigation was aimed to isolate and characterize halotolerant PGPR strain circumvent problems. Strain MSK1 tolerated exceptionally 1000 mM of NaCl identified as K. sacchari using 16S rRNA sequence analysis (accession number MG028651). found metabolically active, produc...

The Gibberella fujikuroi species complex with Fusarium anamorphs is the causal of diverse diseases of many important plants. Many of the known species in this species complex produce a wide range of secondary metabolites. In this study, morphological characteristics of 46 isolates from rice, maize, sugarcane and onion and phylogenetic relationships of 22 isolates on the basis of ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 ...