Fungal endophytes as potential biocontrol agent of Panama disease of banana

Taping, Jonah Mae F.; Borja, Bernadith T.; Bretaña, Bryan Lloyd P.; Tanabe, Maria Elena N.; Cabasan, Ma. Teodora N.

doi:10.1186/s41938-023-00727-7

Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control

Table 2 Morphological and cultural characteristics of the fungal endophyte isolates from Cardaba banana

From: Fungal endophytes as potential biocontrol agent of Panama disease of banana

Isolate code	Cultural characteristics			Morphological characteristics			Genus
Isolate code	Shape	Texture	Surface color	Reverse color	Conidia	Hyphae	Genus
USMJMTBL1	Circular	Powdery, granular	Milky white to yellowish	Creamy yellowish	–	Aseptate, and highly branched	Blakeslea
USMJMTBL3	Irregular	Cottony	White	Pale white	Elliptical, slightly curved, septate	Hyaline, highly branched	Pseudopestalotiopsis
USMJMTBL4	Circular	Cottony, fluffy	White	Pale white	Hyaline, smooth to finely roughened	Hyaline, branched	Xylaria
USMJMTBL5	Irregular	Granular, cottony	Ashy white with black mycelium at the middle	Black mycelium in the middle and dark grey patches at the edge	Spherical, black, shiny, smooth	Smooth, hyaline to pale brown, branched, septate	Nigrospora
USMJMTBL6	Circular	Cottony, web-liked	Inner black mycelium with pale white patches at the edge	Dark grey mycelium	Straight cylindrical conidia	Highly branched	Colletotrichum
USMJMTBL10	Irregular	Feathery, web-liked	Creamy white	White mycelium	Hyaline, smooth	Branched, septate, highly coiled	Xylaria
USMJMTBL11	Circular	Cottony, fluffy	White	Pale white	Unbranched, cylindrical shaped with flattened ends	Branched, aseptate peridial	Gymnoascus
USMJMTBP1	Semi circular	Cottony, granular	White	White mycelium	0–1 septate microconidia three-septate macroconidia	Hyaline, septate	Fusarium
USMJMTBP3	Circular	Granular	Pale white	Pale white mycelium	–	Thin- walled, frequently branched, hyaline, simple-septate	Rigidoporus
USMJMTBR1	Irregular	Web-liked	Dark gray	Dark mycelium	Dark brown to black, rough, globose, beaked and ostiolated	Thin walls hyaline to dark brown, septate	Macrophomina

– = not detected at 7 days after incubation

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