Abstract

• In the research work, soil samples were collected from six different places of Homalin Township during July 2017. Soil samples were collected from 0-15 cm depth after removing the surface soil for the isolation of fungi. After three days, soil fungi were isolated by the serial dilution method on six different media. A total of 41 fungal strains were isolated and the surface colour of isolated fungi HMT-1 to HMT-41 were white, black, green, pale green, greenish white, dark green, tan, yellow, yellowish green, plum, pale pink, gray and their reverse colour were cream, yellowish cream, greenish cream, buff, brown and purple. In the colony morphology, the isolated fungi were small, medium and large in size. The margin of isolated fungi were entire, undulate, filiform, lobate and the elevation of isolated fungi were raised, convex, flat, umbonate and the form of isolated fungi were circular, irregular, filamentous and rhizoid. Moreover, physicochemical properties of soil from different locations of Homalin Township were analyzed. Some physicochemical properties of soil samples were preliminaries determined and the collected soil samples were found to the rich in fungal strains due to acidic (4.67-5.80), moisture content (0.91 –7.23), organic matter (3.33- 7.98), temperature (25- 27 ˚C) and texture. Soil texture was examined by hydrometer method. Furthermore, all fungal strains were tested by seven test organisms for preliminary study of antimicrobial activity. Among them, twenty strains showed different levels of antimicrobial activity. Especially, HMT-33 showed the moderate antimicrobial activity against all test organisms. Therefore, strain of HMT-33 may be useful by the pharmaceutical industries for the production of antibiotics from local sources.