National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The present study was undertaken with an objective to estimate predominant epiphytes from leaves and fruits of apple by using different methods on different media. In all, eleven epiphytes were isolated using potato dextrose agar, nutrient agar and yeast maltose agar media. Amongst them, five fungal isolates viz., Aspergillus sp. (I1), Penicillium sp. (I2), Fusarium sp. (I3), Rhizopus sp. (I4) and Alternaria sp. (I5) and six bacterial isolates viz., Pseudomonas sp. (I6), Pseudomonas sp. (I7), Bacillus sp. (I8), Bacillus sp. (I9), Staphylococcus sp. (I10) and Micrococcus sp. (I11) were predominantly noticed under all the three methods (leaf impression, serial dilution and fruit washing) and were hence, used for further studies. The highest average colony count of 3.62 colonies/cm2was recorded in fruit washing method followed by leaf impression (3.17) and lowest in serial dilution method (2.12).
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