Endophytic Fungi: A Source Of Novel Enzymic Antioxidants And Biologically Active Secondary Metabolites

Bacterial and fungal endophytes are an attractive group of microorganisms harbouring a number of bioactive natural products. Ocimum sanctum is known to have endophytes. Therefore the present project was carried out to evaluate the presence of endophytic fungi from Ocimum sanctum and the presence of enzymic antioxidants and phytochemicals. Black tulsi have shown mainly the presence of three enzymes amylase, protease and lipase as compared with that of the green tulsi which produces only lipase. Phytochemical analysis have shown that alkaloids and flavonoids were present both in black and green tulsi endophytes while cardiac glycosides and terpenoids were totally absent in both the types of the tulsi leaves.