Plants produce potent constitutive and induced antifungal compounds to complement the
structural barriers to microbial infection. A wide spectrum of compound classes has been …

The Bocconieae tribe, consisting of only the genera Macleaya and Bocconia, possesses
significant economic and medicinal value and plays an important role in health management …

The increasing microbial resistance to primary active structures remains alarming and the
effort to look for new antibacterial active structures is still of scientific interest. One of the …

Resistance of pathogenic microorganisms against antimicrobials is a major threat to
contemporary human society. It necessitates a perpetual influx of novel antimicrobial …

A series of racemic 3-phenyl-5-methyl-2H, 5H-furan-2-ones related to a natural product,(−)
incrustoporine, was synthesized, and their antifungal activity evaluated. The key structural …

Isoquinoline alkaloids are a kind of small molecular compounds with isoquinoline structure
which widely exist in natural plants. A large number of studies have confirmed that these …

Bacterial infections remain a major threat to the world community in terms of both morbidity
and mortality. Indeed, bacterial infections are accountable for millions of fatalities around the …

The Genisteae tribe belongs to the Fabaceae family. The wide occurrence of secondary
metabolites, explicitly highlighting the quinolizidine alkaloids (QAs), characterizes this tribe …

Fungal natural products and their effects have been known to humankind for hundreds of
years. For example, toxic ergot alkaloids produced by filamentous fungi growing on rye …

Cryptococcosis is a fungal infection caused mainly by the pathogenic yeasts Cryptococcus
neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii. The infection initiates with the inhalation of propagules …