MUHAMMAD HAMAYUN1,*, NASIR KHAN1, MUHAMMAD NAUMAN KHAN2, MUHAMMAD QADIR1, ANWAR HUSSAIN1, AMJAD IQBAL3, SUMERA AFZAL KHAN4, KHUSHNOOD UR REHMAN5, IN-JUNG LEE6,*
BIOCELL, Vol.45, No.2, pp. 363-369, 2021, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2021.013907
- 19 February 2021
Abstract Bacterial endophytes are beneficial to their hosts as they can fix nitrogen in the soil and make it available to the
host. Endophytic bacteria also secrete plant growth-promoting hormones to support their host plants under normal as
well as stress conditions. The current study aimed to isolate endophytic bacteria from different parts of Calotropis
procera, i.e., roots, stem and leaves of Calotropis
procera (Ait.) W.T. Aiton. Plants were collected from the Lundkhwar,
district Mardan. A total of 12 bacterial strains, i.e., six from roots, three from the stem and three from the leaves were
isolated. The strains… More >