INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHARMACY & LIFE SCIENCES (Int. J. of Pharm. Life Sci.) Study of Antagonism between Test Fungal Organisms Isolated as Aero-mycoflora from Kalyan P.G. College, Bhilai Nagar, Durg (Chhattisgarh State)

Screening for the search of aero-mycoflora, procured from different vertical strata revealed that the air get contaminated with nearly 16 different categories of molds. Out of 16, 06 namely Aspergillus niger, Curvularia lunata, Pestalotia machrotricha, Chaetomium globossum, Bipolaris sorokinianum and Alternaria alternata were taken as test fungal organisms for the study of antagonism. Dual culturing experiments showed that the Chaetomium globossum hindered effectively the growth of all the test fungi and Pestalotia machrotricha was found to synergistic against Curvularia lunata and Bipolaris sorokinianum, while Chaetomium globossum, and Aspergillus niger effectively suppressed the growth of Pestalotia machrotricha. Among all the test fungal species, Bipolaris sorokinianum was found weaker in competition, where as Chaetomium globossum the most stronger and dominating followed by Pestalotia machrotricha and Curvularia lunata.