1Dept. of Life Science and Bio-Informatics, Assam University, Silchar-788011, Assam, India
National Repository for Cyanobacteria and Microgreen algae (freshwater), Microbial Resources Division Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development (A National Institute of DBT, Govt. of India), Takyelpat, Imphal-795001, Manipur, India
*Corresponding author: ontiwari1968@gmail.com
Online published on 20 January, 2017.
The present investigation deals with the 550 algal and soil samples which were collected from the rice fields of Manipur, India falling under Indo-Burma Biodiversity hotspots during 2010–2014. One hundred twelve (112) unialgal cyanobacteria (non-heterocystous and heterocystous both) were encountered, successfully cultured, purified and deposited to the National fresh water cyanobacterial and Microalgal repository of IBSD, Imphal, Manipur with accession numbers. These strains belong to sixteen genera namely; Myxosarcina (01), Spirulina (01), Oscillatoria (01), Phormidium (15), Lyngbya (08), Limnothrix (04), Cylindrospermum (04), Nostoc (13), Anabaena (32), Aulosira (02), Plectonema (10), Scytonema (03), Westiellopsis (01), Microchaete (06), Calothrix (09) and Dichothrix (02). All these strains were morphologically characterized by classical method.
Accession, Cyanobacteria, Heterocystous, Manipur, Repository
