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Endophytic fungi colonize the inner parts of the plant tissues asymptomatically. Numerous research studies have demonstrated that endophytes directly generate bioactive compounds, improving their host plants' fitness. There has been a notable trend towards eco-friendly products in healthcare, medicine, and many other significant explorations of endophytic fungi, which have been discovered to generate diverse secondary metabolites with various biological properties, which has been a particular area of interest in this transformation. These fungi are an abundant source of secondary metabolites with functional properties, such as steroids, phenols, phenolic acids, quinines, phenolic, indole derivatives, amines, iso-coumarin derivatives, alkaloids, sesquiterpenes, flavonoids, diterpenes, lignans, terpenoids, peptides, chlorinated metabolites, and aliphatic compounds. New antibiotics, antimycotics, immunosuppressants, anticancer chemicals, and other bioactive secondary metabolites with diverse biological activity are now known to come from an endophytic fungus. Bioactive secondary metabolites produced by endophytic fungal organisms have been found to have unexpected medicinal promise. A

Author

Mriganka Das; Sibashish Kityania; Rupshikha Nath; Rajat Nath; Deepa Nath; Anupam Das Talukdar

Publisher

Springer International Publishing AG

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9783031491115

Subjects

Science, Technology, Chemistry