DIVERSITY OF AM FUNGI OF Centella asiatica L IN KANYAKUMARI DT., OF TAMIL NADU

A study on diversity of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associated with Centella asiatica L (Kondangal or Vallari) plant root colonization and rhizosphere soils were carried out at rainy season consecutively. They impact of physical and chemical factors of rhizosphere soils in relation to the quantitative and qualitative assessment of AM fungi in Kanyakumari district of Tamil nadu. To found twelve species of AM fungi belonging to five genera viz: Glomus, Aculospora, Sclerocystis, Gigaspora, and Scutellospora were recorded and identified from rhizosphere soils. The most frequent most genera were found Glomus mossea and Gigaspora margarita noticed in the Centella asiatica rhizosphere soil.