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Plant Endophytes, Renewable Source of New Natural Products
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Plant Endophytes, Renewable Source of New Natural Products

Ehab S. El-Khayat, Sabrin R. Mohamed Ibrahim and Gamal A. Mohamed
The natural products journal, Vol.2(3), pp.225-234
01/01/2012

Abstract

Chemistry, Medicinal Life Sciences & Biomedicine Pharmacology & Pharmacy Science & Technology
Plant endophytic fungi are considered an important source of natural bioactive compounds which commonly applied in agriculture, medicine, and food industry. In the past two decades, many valuable bioactive secondary metabolites obtained from the endophytic fungi have antimicrobial, insecticidal, cytotoxic and anticancer activities. Many recent articles revealed endophyte natural products as new compounds and discussed their biological activities and source organisms, as well as the plant sources.

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