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Isolation of Viable Multicellular Glands from Tissue of the Carnivorous Plant, Nepenthes
Published on: December 22, 2013
Diversity of endophytic bacteria in medicinally important Nepenthes species
Subhash J Bhore1, Vijayan Komathi, Kodi I Kandasamy
1Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, AIMST University, Bedong-Semeling Road, Semeling, Kedah, Malaysia.
Background:
Nepenthes species are used in traditional medicines to treat various health ailments. However, we do not know which types of endophytic bacteria (EB) are associated with Nepenthes spp.
Objective:
The objective of this study was to isolate and to identify EB associated with Nepenthes spp.
Materials And Methods:
Surface-sterilized leaf and stem tissues from nine Nepenthes spp. collected from Peninsular Malaysia were used to isolate EB. Isolates were identified using the polymerase chain reaction-amplified 16S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) sequence similarity based method.
Results:
Cultivable, 96 isolates were analyzed; and the 16S rDNA sequences analysis suggest that diverse bacterial species are associated with Nepenthes spp. Majority (55.2%) of the isolates were from Bacillus genus, and Bacillus cereus was the most dominant (14.6%) among isolates.
Conclusion:
Nepenthes spp. do harbor a wide array of cultivable endophytic bacteria.
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