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    The potential role of endophytes in the conservation of endangered medicinal plants
    (Masinde muliro university of science and technology, 2011) Siamba, Donald N.; Tsingalia, HM.; Kuria, DM.; Osogo, A.; Nyongesa, P.
    Enumeration of the endophytic fungi from the red listed, critically endangered medicinal plant, Coscinium fenestratum was investigated for the first time. The ubiquitous presence of 41 endophytic fungi belonging to sixteen different taxa was identified from 195 samples of healthy leaves and stem using traditional morphological methods. The overall colonization rate of endophytes in both the leaf and the stem was found to be 21.02%.The stem showed low percentage frequency of colonization of the endophytic fungi when compared to leaf segments. Among the endophytic flora, Phomopsis jacquiniana was found to be the core-group fungus with a colonization frequency of 4.6%.
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    Preliminary isolation and characterization of bacterial endophytes from selected medicinal plants for anthelmntic metabolites
    (Springer Netherlands, 2011) Siamba, Donald N.; Tsingalia, HM.; Kuria, DM.; Osogo, A.; Nyongesa, P.
    Endophytic fungi have been creating a considerable interest and curiosity among researchers since past three decades globally, owing to their recognition as an inexhaustible source of structurally and biologically novel compounds, alternative source of metabolites functionally identical to plant produced metabolites and their ability to impart resistance in host plants against various biotic and abiotic stresses. In this review, we have earnestly attempted to compile a vast array of endophytic fungi assemblages harbored inside Indian medicinal plants which have been reported during last decade from India.