Bioactive secondary metabolites produced by microorganisms associated with plants
By S. Firáková, M. Šturdíková, M. Múčková. Biologia, 2007
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In the past few decades groups of scientists have focused their study on relatively new microorganisms called endophytes. By definition these microorganisms, mostly fungi and bacteria, colonise the intercellular spaces of the plant tissues. The mutual relationship between endophytic microorganisms and their host plants, taxanomy and ecology of endophytes are being studied. Some of these microorganisms produce bioactive secondary metabolites that may be involved in a host-endophyte relationship. Recently, many endophytic bioactive metabolites, known as well as new substances, possesing a wide variety of biological activities as antibiotic, antitumor, antiinflammatory, antioxidant, etc. have been identified. The microorganisms such as endophytes may be very interesting for biotechnological production of bioactive substances as medicinally important agents. Therefore the aim of this review is to briefly characterize endophytes and summarize the structuraly different bioactive secondary metabolites produced by endophytic microorganisms as well as microbial sources of these metabolites and their host plants.
Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Pharmacology
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- Biology of Endophytic Fungi (2012, background): “The mycelium of the fungus then grows into the sheath, stem, and leaf tissues, finally enters the flowering stem and seeds (Firáková et al. 2007).”
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- Endophytic Fungi: Natural Products, Enzymes and Biotransformation Reactions (2009, background): “Novel and bioactive natural products have continued to be discovered from endophytic fungi after the previously published comprehensive reviews covering small molecules discovered up to 2005 [15,20,21].”
- Endophytic fungi promote plant growth and mitigate the adverse effects of stem rot: an example of Penicillium citrinum and Aspergillus terreus (2015, background): “Penicillium and Aspergillus species produce a wide variety of secondary metabolites (Firáková et al. 2007; Brakhage 2013; Khan et al. 2013).”
- Rock phosphate-solubilizing Actinomycetes: screening for plant growth-promoting activities (2008, background): “These intimate links between the Actinomycete strains and the plant are thought to greatly improve the efficiency of the delivery of nutrients from the micro-organisms to the plant (Cao et al. 2004; Schrey et al. 2005; Firakova et al. 2007 ) and are”