Table 1.

Morphological features of microbes associated with P. thomsonii

Isolates	Macroscopic observation on potato dextrose agar	Microscopic observation	Radial growth rate (mm/d)
FG-Z4	Velvet and sulcate colonies with green color	Highly branched and septate hyphae	0.984
FG-Z5	Grayish white and shiny colonies with soft and smooth surface	Cells were oval, conical or reniform	2.40
FG-Z6	Colonies were rosy-whitish to peach-colored and neat at margin	Conidia were regular-spherical, smooth and hyaline	4.04
FG-Z9	Colonies were round, flat, velvet-like and the edges were like snowflakes	Thin to dense hyphae with diaphragm and granular salience	12.64
FG-Z12	Pink colored colonies with fluffy aerial mycelium, irregular and margin	Mycelia were delicate, felt-like and funiculous	4.90
FG-Z15	Colonies were hyaline to light white, velvety texture and growth pattern was round with irregular margin	Clamp connections of mycelium were clearly visible	17.80
FG-Z20	Colonies were cottony, white, dense and irregular margins	Mycelium had many branches with small elliptical and ovate spores on the branchlets	4.31
FG-Z21	Colonies circular form, concentrically spreading with sparse aerial mycelium, margin entire	Mycelia hyaline to white colored	12.36
FG-Z35	Powdery yellowish-white colonies	Conidia formed on both verticillate and penicillate conidiophoresn and was globose to subglobose, smooth, hyaline	4.33
FG-Z36	The colonies were downy to woolly with a regular margin, greyish surface, with brown diffusible pigment	The hyphae were filamentous septate and hyaline to brown	2.93
FG-Z41	Colony had regular margin, white and penetrated the agar	Hyphae were branched, long hyphal segments and simple septate with scattered single clamp connections	2.13

	Macroscopic observation on Luria–Bertani Agar	Observation	Gram stain
FG-X1	Single colonies appeared oval, milky white, and smooth, with bright and slightly raised surfaces, and with moist neat edges	Thallus were rhabditiform	G−
FG-X2	Colonies were pale yellow to cream-colored, circular, convex with entire margin	Cells were short rods	G−
FG-X4	Colonies were smooth circular, yellow and slightly raised surfaces	Cells were asporogeneous and rod shaped motile	G−
FG-X8	Colonies appeared circle, slightly convex and pale yellow	Cells were coccus and shiny	G−
FG-X18	Colonies appeared round, slightly convex, opaque, smooth and beige	Cells were straight rod-shaped	G−
FG-X20	Colonies were circular, smooth-margined and yellow	Cells were rod-shaped	G−
FG-X35	Colonies were smooth, circular and milky white	Cells were motile, oval-shaped or rod shaped	G−
FG-X48	Colonies were round, even, regular, low convex, smooth, opaque, orange pigmented	Cells occurred in pairs, tetrads or clusters	G−
FG-X50	Colonies were light white to yellow, convex and circular, viscous, smooth	Cells were rod-shaped and non-motile	G−