Owing to the outbreak of fatal diseases that require searching for new compounds with high activity and/or novel action mechanisms, screening for promising sources of biologically active compounds that fulfill the current needs of humanity is a matter of life and death. Fungi generally and endophytic ones specifically represent future factories and potent biotechnological tools for production of bioactive natural substances, which could extend healthy life span of humanity (as done by penicillin from centuries), and are considered promising alternatives for some high costly produced chemicals and drugs. The present review highlights some bioactive secondary metabolites, produced by fungal endophytes, involved in medical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, and industrial applications.
Daba, G., Elkhateeb, W., & Thomas, P. (2018). This era of biotechnological tools. Egyptian Pharmaceutical Journal, 17(3), 121-128. doi: 10.4103/epj.epj_35_18
MLA
Ghoson M. Daba; Waill A. Elkhateeb; Paul W. Thomas. "This era of biotechnological tools", Egyptian Pharmaceutical Journal, 17, 3, 2018, 121-128. doi: 10.4103/epj.epj_35_18
HARVARD
Daba, G., Elkhateeb, W., Thomas, P. (2018). 'This era of biotechnological tools', Egyptian Pharmaceutical Journal, 17(3), pp. 121-128. doi: 10.4103/epj.epj_35_18
VANCOUVER
Daba, G., Elkhateeb, W., Thomas, P. This era of biotechnological tools. Egyptian Pharmaceutical Journal, 2018; 17(3): 121-128. doi: 10.4103/epj.epj_35_18
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