Induction of chlamydospores to enhance the shelf-life in Trichoderma asperellum using phosphorus deficient medium

Abstract

immense group of microbes habituating especially fungal
and bacterial microorganisms and these soil microbes
have ability to transform complex compounds into
simpler that enter again the ecosystem as well as they
also mobilize, biotransformation and bioaccumulation
processes of nutrients, micronutrient and heavy metals
in the soil (Gadd 1993). Morphological behaviour and
activity of the microbes highly influenced by the
environmental factors and nutrient stress such as
drought, heat, salinity, cold, can have a devastating impact
on microbial activities as well as on plant growth and
crop yield (Suzuki et al. 2014). Multiple tip-formations
near the hyphal apex in filamentous fungi especially in
Aspergillus nidulans and Neurospora crassa due to
environmental and nutritional stress and this phenomenon
happened due to disturbance of the process of tip
extension and such aberration might be potential benefits
in increasing the number of exploratory branches
emanating from a mycelium to tackle risk of the
environmental factors (Markham 1992).