SOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF FUNGI FROM DIFFERENT SOIL SAMPLES IN THE DISTRICTS OF ANDHRA PRADESH
Indian soils are characterized as poor to medium status with respect to available phosphorus, as the native soil phosphorus is mostly unavailable to crops because of low solubility. Sustainable crop production depends much on good soil health. The soil is one of the most important habitats for microorganisms like bacteria, fungi, yeasts, nematodes, etc. Repeated use of chemical fertilizers destroys soil biota. The objective of the present work is to isolate and identify fungi from different soil samples (black soil and red soil) collected from different districts of Andhra Pradesh state [Hyderabad (Chevella and Gudipadu), Caddapa and Adilabad ).The dominant genera in all the ecosystem types were Aspergillus, followed by Alternaria, Rhizopus and Helminthosporium. Among the various genera Aspergillus was the only genus that was distributed in all the soil types, indicating that it adapts easily to different environment very well