Fig 1.
Taxonomical hierarchy of host plants: (a) A. elaeagnoidea, (b) F. inermis and (c) P. serratifolia.
Fig 2.
Map showing the geographical location of the sampling site.
Fig 3.
Colonization frequency (CF) and endophytic infection rate (EIR) of foliar endophytic fungi from three Magnoliopsida plants.
Table 1.
Sampling effort and number of foliar endophytic fungi isolated from A. elaeagnoidea, F. inermis, and P. serratifolia.
Fig 4.
Taxonomical hierarchy of foliar endophytic fungi isolated from A. elaeagnoidea, F. inermis and P. serratifolia.
Fig 5.
Box and whiskers plots depicting the secondary structral free energy, GC content and length of the ITS2 sequences employed in this study.
Fig 6.
Consensus secondary structure of all internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) sequences employed in molecular morphometric analysis. Helices were numbered I–III from 5’ to 3’ direction.
Sequence conservation was indicated with colours from red (not conserved) to green (>51%; conserved).
Fig 7.
Internal transcribed spacer 2 sequence–secondary structure based phylogenetic tree of Botryosphaeriales and Dothideales query and reference sequences.
The query sequences are represented by the symbol “♦”. Bootstrap (BP) values ≥50 were represented in the tree. Maximum Likelihood tree was presented with branch support values as BP of ML tree / BP of NJ tree.
Fig 8.
Internal transcribed spacer 2 sequence–secondary structure based phylogenetic tree of Diaporthales query and reference sequences.
The query sequences are represented by the symbol “♦”. Bootstrap (BP) values ≥50 were represented in the tree. Maximum Likelihood tree was presented with branch support values as BP of ML tree / BP of NJ tree.
Fig 9.
Internal transcribed spacer 2 sequence–secondary structure based phylogenetic tree of Glomerellales and Xylariales query and reference sequences.
The query sequences are represented by the symbol “♦”. Bootstrap (BP) values ≥50 were represented in the tree. Maximum Likelihood tree was presented with branch support values as BP of ML tree / BP of NJ tree.
Fig 10.
Internal transcribed spacer 2 sequence–secondary structure based phylogenetic tree of Pleosporales query and reference sequences.
The query sequences are represented by the symbol “♦”. Bootstrap (BP) values ≥50 were represented in the tree. Maximum Likelihood tree was presented with branch support values as BP of ML tree / BP of NJ tree.
Fig 11.
Relative percentage occurrence of different foliar endophytic fungal taxa isolated from (A) A. elaeagniodea, (B) F. inermis and (C) P. serratifolia and (D) Illustration of the host specificity.
Fig 12.
Species accumulation curves of foliar endophytic fungi recovered from Magnoliopsida plants.
Table 2.
Species richness (ACE and Chao 1), evenness (Simpson Inverse and Alpha) and Shannon’s diversity (H’) indices of A. elaeagniodea, F. inermis, and P. serratifolia.
Table 3.
Shared species indices of A. elaeagniodea, F. inermis and P. serratifolia.
Fig 13.
Ranked species graphs of foliar endophytic fungal assemblages in (A) A. elaeagniodea, (B) F. inermis and (C) P. serratifolia.