Use of the herb milk thistle (Silybum marianum) is widespread, and its chemistry has been studied for over 50 years. However, milk thistle endophytes have not been studied previously for their fungal and chemical diversity. We examined the fungal endophytes inhabiting this medicinal herb to determine: (1) species composition and phylogenetic diversity of fungal endophytes; (2) chemical diversit...

Endophytes are an endosymbiotic group of microorganisms that colonize in plants and microbes that can be readily isolated from any microbial or plant growth medium. They act as reservoirs of novel bioactive secondary metabolites, such as alkaloids, phenolic acids, quinones, steroids, saponins, tannins, and terpenoids that serve as a potential candidate for antimicrobial, anti-insect, anticancer...

INTRODUCTION: Endophytic fungi are microorganisms that live asymtomatically within their host tissues (Wilson 1995). Since the term endophyte was first introduced by DeBary (1866) the definition has been much debated. Presently the definition includes a broad array of organisms that can live within plant tissues (Stone et al. 2000). What are considered “true” endophytes live benignly within a h...

random samples from asymptomatic leaves and branches of five native medicinal plants: stachys lavandulifolia, rumex pulcher, hypericum scabrum, starja bachteriarica and achillea kellalensis were collected from chaharmahal province of iran and examined for the presence of endophytic bacteria and fungi with biological activity. from 8 isolated endophytic fungi, all displayed considerable activity...

International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Review and Research Available online at www.globalresearchonline.net 128 Pramod Kumar Pandey, Siddhartha Singh, Raj Naraian Singh Yadav, Amit Kumar Singh*, M. Chandra Kumar Singh Department of Basic Science and Humanities, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Central Agricultural University, Pasighat, Arunachal Pradesh, India. Centre for Studies...

salinity is one of the major problems in the world's vast areas of land are also faced with this problem. endophytes are microorganisms that use of the soil microorganisms, the reduction of environmental stresses such as salinity, has become a global solution. therefore, to investigate the effects of inoculation of fungal endophytes piriformospora indica and bacteria symbiosis hay azospiri...

Plants are hosts to complex communities of endophytic bacteria that colonize the interior of both below- and aboveground tissues. Bacteria living inside plant tissues as endophytes can be horizontally acquired from the environment with each new generation, or vertically transmitted from generation to generation via seed. A better understanding of bacterial endophyte transmission routes and mode...

Mutualistic interactions between species are receiving increased attention from ecologists, although research lags far behind analogous work on competition or predator-prey interactions. Most research has focused on rather showy mutualisms such as pollination or fruit dispersal and has suggested that mutualisms are more important in tropical communities than in temperate communities (67). Plant...

Background: Agaricus bisporus is an edible basidiomycete fungus. Both the body and the mycelium contain compounds comprising a wide range of antimicrobial molecules, contributing in improvement of immunity and tumor-retardation. Objectives: The presence of endophytes capable of producing bioactive compounds was investigated in Agaricus bisporus. Materials and Methods: Endophytes from Agaricus b...