JOURNAL OF CULTURE COLLECTIONS
OCCURRENCE OF
DIFFERENT MORPHOTYPES OF
Nibha Gupta*, Srilekha Mishra and Uday Chand Basak
Regional Plant Resource Centre, Bhubaneswar – 751 015 (Orissa), India
*Corresponding author, e-mail: nguc2003@ yahoo.co.in
Summary
Ten
strains of genus Streptomyces were
isolated from phyllosphere of three mangrove tree species viz., Sonneratia
caseolaris, Kandelai candel and Exoecocaria aggallocha found in
Bhitarkanika mangrove ecosytem of Orissa. According to physiological and biochemical
data, all ten isolates were taxonomically assigned to the species Streptomyces
exfoliatus. However, all the
strains varied morphologically and exhibited different extracellular activity.
This is a unique report on this mangrove ecosystem as far as Streptomyces occurrence
is concerned.
Key words: mangroves, Streptomyces, salinity, Orissa, Bhitarkanika