Foliar phenols and flavonoids level in pteridophytes: an insight to culturable fungal endophyte colonisation.

There are many available reports of secondary metabolites as bioactive molecules from culturable endophytes, nevertheless, there are scarce research pertaining to the levels of metabolites in plants with respect to the incidence and colonisation of fungal endophytes in the same foliar tissues. Therefore, the study was focussed to examine whether fungal endophyte colonisation and the accumulation of secondary metabolites, such as flavonoids and phenols, in the plants are related in any way. For this reason, the study aims to analyse phenols and flavonoids from the fronds of eleven pteridophytes along with the culture-dependent isolation of fungal endophytes from the host plants subsequently assigning them to morphological category and their quantitative analysis and further resolving its identities through molecular affiliation.

Medicinal Properties of Clitocybe brunneocaperata (Agaricomycetes) from India.

The present research documented the first evidence of Clitocybe brunneocaperata from Tripura, Northeast India. The main purposes of this study were identification of the mushroom and qualitative toxicity screening along with antibacterial and antioxidant activities of its methanolic extracts. The species has been recognized on the basis of the morphometric and molecular studies.

Assessment of chemically characterised essential oil against fungi contaminating stored scented rice and its mode of action as novel aflatoxin inhibitor.

The study reports chemically characterised essential oil (MFEO) as plant based food preservative against fungal and aflatoxin B (AFB) contamination of scented rice varieties. The chemical profile of MFEO revealed elemicin (27.08%), myristicine (21.

Molecular Characterization and Antioxidant Potential of Three Wild Culinary-Medicinal Mushrooms from Tripura, Northeast India.

The aim of this study was to characterize 3 wild culinary-medicinal mushrooms using molecular tools and to analyze their antioxidant activity. Antioxidant properties were studied by evaluating free radical scavenging, reducing power, and chelating effect. The mushrooms were identified as Lentinus squarrosulus, L.