Among the most fascinating and important properties of fungi is their ability to produce a
tremendous variety of so-called secondary metabolites that display a broad range of …

Fungi produce a variety of secondary metabolites (SMs), low-molecular weight compounds
associated with many potentially useful biologic activities. The examples of …

Fungal biology deals with the study of fungi, including their growth and development, their
genetic and biochemical characteristics, their taxonomy and genomics, and their use to …

Secondary metabolic pathways of fungal origin provide an almost unlimited resource of new
compounds for medical applications, which can fulfill some of the, currently unmet, needs for …

The eukaryotic microbes called oomycetes include many important saprophytes and
pathogens, with the latter exhibiting necrotrophy, biotrophy, or obligate biotrophy …

Fungi play many roles in different ecosystems. The precise identification of fungi is important
in different aspects. Historically, they were identified based on morphological characteristics …

Mycoparasitic fungi, fungi preying on other fungal species, are prolific producers of volatile
and non-volatile secondary metabolites. Several secondary metabolites are produced …

Filamentous fungi produce a plethora of bioactive natural products. These metabolites
display a broad range of useful activities for pharmaceutical purposes, exemplified best by …

In the continual search by both pharmaceutical and agricultural industries for new products,
natural selection has been found to be superior to combinatorial chemistry for discovering …

Fungal genomics revealed a large potential of yet-unexplored secondary metabolites, which
are not produced during vegetative growth. The discovery of novel bioactive compounds is …