ADVANCEMENT IN ENDOPHYTIC MICROBES FROM MEDICINAL PLANTS
AbstractThis overview firstly highlights biology of endophytic microbes from medicinal plants as well as their chemistry with emphasis on the important merging of microbiology and natural products chemistry and its role in improving our current knowledge of endophytic associations in medicinal plants. Secondary metabolites of medicinal plants-derived endophytes reported in recent years are grouped according to their bioactive properties including antitumor, antimicrobial, growth-promoting, antioxidant, antithrombotic, insecticide and other functions. New insights on distributing characteristics and biodiversity of these endophytes including bacteria, actinomycetes and fungi are also presented. It suggested that endophytic microbe from medicinal plant is a treasure trove of bioactive natural products with a good and potential application prospect in pharmacy and agriculture.
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1589-1600
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English
IJPSR
Huawei Zhang*, Chen Ying , and Xuelian Bai
Associate professor (Biopharmaceutics), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China
hwzhang@zjut.edu.cn
03 December, 2013
24 January, 2014
24 February, 2014
http://dx.doi.org/10.13040/IJPSR.0975-8232.5(5).1589-1600
01 May, 2014
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