“…It forms thin-walled, haphazardly septate, hyaline and multinucleate hyphae and produces ovoid shaped chlamydospores to stabilize the interaction (Das et al, 2013). In colonized crop plants, it confer various physiologically functional traits such as water and mineral uptake, photosynthesis, improved biomass, increased productivity and enhanced plant fitness to environmental stress (Tsimilli-Michael and Strasser, 2013;Ansari et al, 2013;Sun et al, 2010;Achatz et al, 2010). P. indica interacts with a diverse group of microorganisms such as Sebacina vermifera, Pseudomonas fluorescens (rhizobacteria), Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Gaeumannomyces graminis, and other soil fungi (i.e., Aspergillus niger, A. sydowii and Rhizopus stolonifer).…”