104708

Endophytic fungal research in Egypt: Present status

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Tags

Microbial Ecology
Microbial-plant interactions
Symbiosis

Abstract

Plant endophytes are a potential source for the production of bioactive compounds that can fight against devastating diseases in both plants and humans. Among these endophytic microorganisms, endophytic fungi are one of the dominant group of microorganisms with a potential role in plant growth promotion and the discovery of noble bioactive natural products. Endophytic fungi possess several bioactivities like anticancer, antimicrobial, anti-rheumatoidal, insecticidal, plant growth stimulants, crop protection, phytoremediation, etc. In 2010, Abdel-Azeem mentioned endophytic fungi as a group needing more exploration in Egypt among the other overlooked fungal groups such as algicolous fungi, invertebrate associated fungi, mycorrhizas, lichens, wood deteriorating, and coprophilous fungi. Presently, main target of many studies in Egypt on endophytic fungal research is coupled with the ability of these micro-organisms to produce and accumulate novel bioactive metabolites as these are potent source of novel natural products useful for anticancer, anti-rheumatoid, antimicrobial, antioxidants, industrial and pharmaceutical enzymes…etc. This mini-review illustrates the role of most brilliant Egyptian researchers to generate potentially valuable products by using native endophytic fungi and the present status of endophytic fungal research in Egypt.

DOI

10.21608/mb.2020.104708

Authors

First Name

Hend

Last Name

El-Shahat

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia 41522, Egypt.

Email

hendsobhy449@yahoo.com

City

Ismailia

Orcid

0000-0001-9015-7842

Volume

5

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

14967

Issue Date

2020-06-01

Receive Date

2020-08-20

Publish Date

2020-10-01

Page Start

122

Page End

127

Print ISSN

2357-0326

Online ISSN

2357-0334

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https://mb.journals.ekb.eg/article_104708.html

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https://mb.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=104708

Order

16

Type

Mini-Review

Type Code

1,413

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Microbial Biosystems

Publication Link

https://mb.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Endophytic fungal research in Egypt: Present status

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Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023