International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences |
ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 2 Number 6 (2013) pp. 184-189 |
Studies on the antibacterial activities of mushroom |
J. Lakshmi Priya* and V. Srinivasan |
Department of Microbiology, Vivekanandha College of Arts and Science for Women, Tiruchengode, Tamil Nadu, India. *Corresponding author e-mail: jlakshmipriyamicro@gmail.com |
A B S T R A C T |
Mushrooms have been cultivated worldwide for commercial purposes. However, little research has been done to ascertain the antibacterial properties of indigenous edible mushrooms. Four species of cultivated and wild varieties were taken for the present study. Among the cultivated species Ganoderma shows inhibitory activity
against Bacillus sp., Staphylococcus aureus., Escherichia coli, Klebsiella sp.,and all other cultivated species like Pleurotus obstreactus, Lentinus edodes, Agaricus bisporus shown no inhibitory activity until 48 hours of incubation . In the wild
species strain 1 shows activity against Bacillus sp., and Staphylococcus aureus and other strains didn t show any such activity. The results obtained in this study
suggest that the cultivated varieties doesn t show any antibacterial activity due to
alteration of genes and loss of microbial activity by continuous sub culturing from
mother spawn and the wild varieties shows some activity confirms that they posses
such character in a given natural population |
Keywords |
Antibacterial; Bacteria; cultivated strains; mushroom; wild strains. |