Serendipita indica

Serendipita indica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Sebacinales
Family: Serendipitaceae
Genus: Serendipita
Species:
S. indica
Binomial name
Serendipita indica
(Sav.Verma, Aj.Varma, Rexer, G.Kost & P.Franken) M. Weiß, Waller, A. Zuccaro & Selosse (2016)
Synonyms

Piriformospora indica

Serendipita indica (synonym Piriformospora indica) is a fungal species of the order Sebacinales. It is an endophytic root-colonising species, discovered from orchid plants in the Thar desert in Rajasthan, India by Prof. Ajit Verma and group, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. The fungus has typical pear-shaped chlamydospores. S. indica can be easily grown on various substrates. It has been found to promote plant growth during its mutualistic symbiotic relationship with a wide variety of plants.[1] Experiments have shown that S. indica increases the resistance of colonized plants against fungal pathogens.[2] It has also been found in experiments with barley that S. indica-inoculated plants are tolerant to salt stress and more resistant to root pathogens. S. indica-infested roots also show antioxidant capacity. The fungus also induces systemic disease resistance in plants.[3] S. indica was found to require host cell death for proliferation during mutualistic symbiosis in barley.[4] Its genome has been sequenced and was published in 2011.[5]

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  5. ^ Zuccaro, A.; Lahrmann, U.; Güldener, U.; Langen, G.; Pfiffi, S.; Biedenkopf, D.; Wong, P.; Samans, B.; Grimm, C.; Basiewicz, M.; Murat, C.; Martin, F.; Kogel, K. H. (2011). Howlett, Barbara Jane (ed.). "Endophytic Life Strategies Decoded by Genome and Transcriptome Analyses of the Mutualistic Root Symbiont Piriformospora indica". PLOS Pathogens. 7 (10): e1002290. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1002290. PMC 3192844. PMID 22022265.