Molecular characterization of selected fungal and bacterial endophytes in acid lime

Endophytes are the microorganisms that are present in living tissue of various plant parts (roots, fruits, stem, seed, leaf etc,). Endophytic microorganisms are good source of antibiotics. Endophytic antagonists were isolated from the roots of healthy acid lime plants collected from major acid lime growing areas of Andhra Pradesh. A total of 8 fungal and 10 bacterial endophytic antagonists were isolated. The antagonists were further subjected to preliminary screening, out of which only 6 endophytic fungal antagonists (EFA 1-6) and 8 endophytic bacterial antagonists (EBA 1-8) isolates showed good inhibitory effect on radial growth of Fusarium solani causing dry root rot in acid lime in vitro. Among them the one of the best fungal and bacterial antagonists that were found to be extremely efficient against Fusarium solani in dual culture assay were selected for further molecular identification. The BLAST results revealed that one of the fungal isolate had shown 100% similarity with Aspergillus fumigatus and one of the bacterial isolate had shown 95.56% similarity with Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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In Situ Generation of Bimetallic Nanoparticles in Cotton Fabric Using Aloe Vera Leaf Extract, as a Reducing Agent

In the present work, bimetallic nanoparticles were in situ generated in cotton fabrics using Aloe Vera extract as reducing agent. The nanocomposite cotton fabrics were prepared, individually with 5 mM concentrations of Ag and Cu salt solutions and equi.molar concentration of their combination, characterized by FTIR, XRD, SEM, EDX, and antibacterial tests. FT-IR studies reveal that nitro compounds and hydroxyl groups are involved in reduction of the metal salts into their metal nanoparticles. The nanocomposite cotton fabrics have shown good antibacterial activity for five bacteria. These fabrics can be used for dressing, wound healing, packaging, and medical applications

Ultrasonic attenuation in aqueous dispersion of polytetrafluoroethylene

302-304<span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:" calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:="" "times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:="" minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-ansi-language:en-us;="" mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="">Speed of sound, density and viscosity of aqueous dispersion of polytetrafluoroethylene at different concentrations and temperatures have been measured. Using these values, the sound attenuation in the dispersion has been calculated. The variation of attenuation with concentration and temperature yields linear relation indicating that polytetrafluoroethylene does not change the structure of water.</span