Endophytic Mycoflora and Their Bioactive Compounds from Azadirachta Indica: A Comprehensive Review

Plants are all inhabited by endophytic fungi in the interior of their tissues. The neem tree Azadirachta is an Indian lilac used for various therapeutic purposes in different forms of preparations. This plant hosts different types of endophytic fungi. In some cases, different tissues of a given plant are inhabited by different endophytic fungi which are discussed in this paper. Recently, there have been new reports on endophytic fungi and their bioactive compounds from Azadirachta indica. The biological function of bioactive compounds was discussed in view of their future industrial prospects. There are a number of different research investigations that examine the endophytes isolated and screened for their potential bioactive secondary metabolites from neem, but there is no comprehensive review on neem endophytes and their secondary metabolites to bring all trends from different researchers together. Therefore, in this review, we have discussed the endophytic fungi from the different tissues of neem, in view of the latest understandings of antimicrobial, antioxidant, and pathogenicity target compounds. Importantly, tracing the previous findings would pave the way to forecast the missing link for future work by researchers.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Journal of Fungi

• Publication date

  2018-03-24

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3390/jof4020042PMID 29587361PMCID 6024304
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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