Diversity of biologically active secondary metabolites in the ascomycete order Sordariales

Abstract Ascomycetes belonging to the order Sordariales are a well-known reservoir of secondary metabolites with potential beneficial applications. Species ubiquitous, and they commonly found in soils lignicolous, herbicolous, coprophilous habitats. Some their species have been used as model organisms modern fungal biology or were be prolific producers potentially useful metabolites. However, majority sordarialean poorly studied. Traditionally, classification has mainly based on morphology ascomata, ascospores, asexual states, characters that demonstrated homoplastic by taxonomic studies multi-locus phylogeny. Herein, we summarize for first time relevant information about available knowledge biological activities exerted representatives this order, well current outlook opportunities recent advances omic tools could bring discovery order.