Endophytes Crop Productivity and Protection Volume 2 (Sustainable Development and Biodiversity)

Keywords Secondary metabolites
Endophytes
Therapeutic applications Bioprospecting 10.1 Introduction Secondary metabolites are na ...

compounds/metabolites has several advantages. For example, (i) When a plant based drug is produced from the source like endophyt ...

Table 10.1 List of plants with DPPH radical scavenging activity Name of plant Extract Results References Alnus incana Catkins me ...

10.2.1 Antioxidant Compounds from Endophytes Polysaccharides from plants and microorganisms have been extensively reported as po ...

antioxidant compound originally characterized from its host plant (Zhao et al. 2012 ). The Tanshinones are diterpenoid quinone c ...

Table 10.2 Plant/plant extracts with antihypercholesterolemic activity Name of plant Extract/plant part Model/method Results Ref ...

10.3.1 Antihypercholesterolemic Compounds from Endophytes HMG–CoA reductase (HMGR) is the key enzyme in the cholesterol biosynth ...

found to have the potential to produce piperine (Chithra et al.2014a). Piperine has also been reported to possess a wide range o ...

has been an enhanced focus on exploring indigenous medicinal plants with antidiabetic potential so that a low cost, safer, and e ...

Table 10.3 List of plant/plant extracts with antidiabetic potential Name of plant Extract/plant part Model/method Results Refere ...

Table 10.3 (continued) Name of plant Extract/plant part Model/method Results References Ipomoeabatatas Plant aqueousextract Stre ...

has been produced by a strain ofF. solaniisolated from roots of the medicinal liana, Coscinium fenestratum(Vinodhini and Agastia ...

10.5 Anticancer Activity of Plants/Plant Extracts Cancer is currently one of the leading causes of death worldwide and it is est ...

production using endophytic fungusTaxomyces andreanae. Another important drug for cancer is the alkaloid“Camptothecin”—a potent ...

study, an unidentified vincristine producing endophytic fungus was isolated from the leaves ofC. roseus(Yang et al. 2004 ). A ne ...

been isolated from the mangrove endophytic fungusPhomopsissp. (Huang et al. 2010 ). Primary bioassays showed that compound 1 exh ...

References Abdul MI, Ramadhan MG, Soemiati A (2013) Screening of endophytic fungi fromCassia siamea lamk leaves asa-glucosidase ...

Chakrabarti R, Bhavtaran S, Narendra P, Varghese N, Vanchhawng L, Mohamed Sham Shihabudeen H, Thirumurgan IVK (2011) Dipeptidyl ...

Ghazanfar K, Ganai BA, Akbar S, Mubashir K, Dar SA, Dar MY, Tantry MA (2014) Antidiabetic activity ofArtemisia amygdalinaDecne i ...

Liu J, Luo J, Ye H, Sun Y, Lu Z, Zeng X (2009) Production, characterization and antioxidant activities in vitro of exopolysaccha ...