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Table 3 Identity of the fungal endophyte isolates from Cardaba banana and their reported biological roles

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

Isolate code

Top BLAST hits (https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi)

Biological roles

Organisms with significant BLAST hits

NCBI accession number

Percentage similarity (%)

USMJMTBL1

Blakeslea trispora Thaxt. 1914

LN609581.1

86.01

An industrial fungal species used for large-scale production of carotenoids (Luo et al. 2020)

USMJMTBL3

Pseudopestalotiopsis theae (Sawada) Maharachch Hyde & Crous 2014

MH472583.1

99.64

Produce polyketides, pestalotheols and cytosporins with clinical importance (Yu et al. 2020)

USMJMTBL4

Xylaria badia Pat. 1891

GU322446.1

98.64

Produce secondary metabolites namely benzoquinone and naphthol glucoside (Oppong et al. 2010)

USMJMTBL5

Nigrospora hainanensis Mei Wang & Cai 2017

OK083685.1

99.47

Its vital bioactive secondary metabolites such as griseofulvin, dechlorogriseofulvin, and mellein have antifungal activity (Zhao et al. 2012)

USMJMTBL6

Colletotrichum gloeosporioides (Penz.) Penz. & Sacc. 1884

KX022505.1

99.66

Showed strong antagonistic activity against tea pathogens Pestalotiopsis theae and moderate activity against C. camelliae (Rabha et al. 2014)

USMJMTBL10

Xylaria feejeensis Berk.1881

GU322453.1

99.32

Produce mellein derivatives which inhibited F. oxysporum causing Fusarium wilt and Alternaria solani causing early blight in tomato (Brooks et al. 2022)

USMJMTBL11

Gymnoascus reessii Baran. 1972

JQ387570.1

92.31

Produce nematotoxic indoloditerpenoid metabolite against Meloidogyne incognita (Liu et al. 2017)

USMJMTBP1

Fusarium subglutinans (Wollenw. & Reinking) Nelson, Toussoun & Marasas 1983

OM955951.1

94.91

Produce subglutinol A and B considered as immunosuppressive agents (Mishra et al. 2021)

USMJMTBP3

Rigidoporus vinctus Berk. 1852

KF494814.1

98.30

Induce agarwood formation (Chen et al. 2019)

USMJMTBR1

Macrophomina phaseolina (Tassi) Goid. 1947

MK757624.1

100.00

Important source of bioactive secondary metabolites (Singh et al. 2022)