Screening of endophytic fungi stored in a culture collection for taxol production

Andrade, Hortência Farias deAraújo, Lívia Caroline Alexandre deSantos, Bruno Souza dosPaiva, Patrícia Maria GuedesNapoleão, Thiago HenriqueCorreia, Maria Tereza dos SantosOliveira, Maria Betânia Melo deLima, Gláucia Manoella de SouzaXimenes, Rafael MatosSilva, Túlio Diego daSilva, Girliane Regina daSilva, Márcia Vanusa da

In this work, four isolates of endophytic fungi (Alternaria alternata, Colletotrichum gloesporioides, Glomerella cingulata and Nigrospora sphaerica), deposited in the culture collection ‘University Recife Mycologia’ (URM) at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, were characterized for the genes ITS 1 and 4 (region 5.8 S) and evaluated for taxol production.(AU)

1. ITS
2. Colletotrichum gloesporioides
3. Taxol route genes
4. Paclitaxel