Fig. 2.
Taxol producing fungal endophytes of G. biloba. A; Morphological views of G. biloba twigs, cork and leaves. B; Potent Taxol producing endophytes; Aspergillus flavus (1), Penicillium polonicum (2), C. herbarum (5) from twigs; A. terreus 1 (16), A. terreus 2 (19) and A. flavus (26) from leaves. C; Microscopical views of isolate # 2 conidial heads (C) and conidiophores (D) at 1000x magnification by light microscope. Molecular identification of P. polonicum; PCR amplicon of ITS region of P. polonicum (E), normalizing to 250-10000bp ladder (Cat.#. SM0312), Phylogenetic analysis of P. polonicum by Maximum Likelihood method (F).