plates with Potato Dextrose Agar (PDA) medium (himedia lab). Ampicillin and streptomycin sulphate (25μg/ml) were added to the medium to inhibit bacterial growth. Plates were incubated for 2–4 days at 250C and then sub-cultured on to fresh PDA plates. The single spore culture method was applied to obtain pure isolates. The isolates were maintained at 250C on PDA slants for subsequent experiments. Fungal identification was done by lacto phenol cotton blue mount method to observe fungal morphology under light microscopy.