<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-fareast-font-family: Times-Roman;\" lang=\"EN-US\">Fungi are associated with number of plant diseases in agricultural crops. The plant extracts have been used as efficient fungicide inhibiting the growth of many fungal pathogens </span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\';\" lang=\"EN-US\">because these are considered safe and free from adverse side effects</span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-fareast-font-family: Times-Roman;\" lang=\"EN-US\">. Bryophytes belong to the group of the oldest known land plants, which includes liverworts, hornworts and mosses. </span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\';\" lang=\"EN-US\">Mosses are among the pioneer colonizers on barren rock surface and are found in certain extreme habitats where other plants are rarely seen. In the present study the antifungal activity of amoss <em>Anaectangium thomsonii</em> Mitt of Kumaon Himalayas (29<sup>0</sup>23.125&rsquo; N and 79<sup>0</sup>27.403&rsquo; E with an Alt. 1929m) in the month of June 2013. Bioactivity of the moss was studied in different solvents ethanol and acetone (80%) against various <a name=\"_GoBack\"></a>fungi <em>viz,</em> <em>Gleocercospora sorghii</em>, <em>Fusarium oxysporum </em><em>f. sp. lycopersici, Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, Pythium oryzae, Sclerotina sp. </em>bydisc diffusion assay and food poisoned methods. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and minimum bactericidal or fungicidal (MBC/MFC) activity was observed employing micro dilution method at different concentrations.&nbsp; Highest antifungal activity was found in ethanolic extracts with MIC/MFC (3.90 to 1000 &micro;g/mL.&nbsp; Estimation of <span style=\"letter-spacing: -.2pt;\">phenolics and flavonoids content revealed that t</span>he ethanolic extract of the <em>A. thomsonii</em> was having maximum flavonoid (at 100&micro;g/mL) and phenolics <span style=\"letter-spacing: -.2pt;\">(at </span>100&micro;g/mL).&nbsp; High content of phenolics and flavonoids suggest their role in the survival of the plant in the direct contact of soil surface where the occurrence of microbial contamination has found high. Future optimisation of these compounds may allow the development of novel antifungal agents as a substitute of conventional fungicides.</span></p>
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<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 72.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -72.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\';\" lang=\"EN-US\">Keywords: &nbsp;</span></strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\" lang=\"EN-US\">Anaectangium thomsonii,</span></em><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\';\" lang=\"EN-US\">antifungal activity, MIC/MFC, phenolics.</span></p>
 
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