Fig. 1.

(A) Isolate N1 grown in liquid medium and supernatant obtained was loaded on agarose plates containing casein (a), gelatin (b) and soybean (c), respectively. Plates were stained with 0.3% CBB R-250 to observe clear zone of protein hydrolysis and zone diameter was measured subsequently. (B) Morphological characteristics of isolate N1. (a) Growth of isolate N1 on Potato Dextrose Agar. (b) Scanning electron microscopic image of isolate showing fungal hyphae and (c) fascicle arrangement of macroconidia. (C) Phylogenetic tree constructed by the neighbor-joining method (MEGA X software) showing the position of Neocosmospora sp. N1 with the sum of branch length = 3.72569419. The percentage of replicate trees in which the associated taxa clustered together in the bootstrap test (1000 replicates) is shown next to the branches.