Diversity of Rice Field Cyanobacteria from Tropical Rice Field of Western Odisha

Bhattacharyya S, Deep P. R., Sahu J. K., Nayak B.

Abstract: Diversity of Cyanobacteria from different tropical rice fields of Western Odisha was studied. Eighty soil samples were collected from ten different sites. Sixty species of twenty one genera were isolated. Aulosira fertilissima and Nostoc carneum showed high frequency of occurrence. Rice field soils of Chiplima and Rengali camp showed 18 different genera with 40 and 38 number of species respectively and Sason has poor Shannons Diversity index with 15 species of 13 genera.

Keywords: Cyanobacteria, Diversity, Rice fields, Western Odisha, Species richness