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Research advances on endophytic fungi and their bioactive metabolites

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Endophytic fungi, as a kind of fungi living in the healthy plant tissues and organs, are important sources of natural bioactive products and new microbial resources with high developing value. Therefore, exploration and utilization of endophytic fungi can not only alleviate the problems of resource shortage and ecological balance destruction caused by extracting large number of useful bioactive products from natural plants, but also benefit the protection of rare and endangered plant resources, which is of great significance and economic value. This review mainly expounds the concept of endophytic fungi, analyzes the research advances of endophytic fungi from antioxidant, antibacterial, insecticidal, regulating plant growth, anticancer and antitumor bioactivities and, furthermore, summarizes the existing problems in present research of endophytic fungi and corresponding solutions. We hope that this review could provide references for the development and utilization of endophytic fungi and their bioactive metabolites.

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This work is funded by the National Engineering Laboratory/Provincal Key Laboratory of food Science Discipline, Henan University of Technology (NL2021006), Cultivation Programme for Young Backbone Teachers in Henan University of Technology (21420116), Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province (212300410131) and Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing (cstc2019jcyj-msxmX0459).

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    Zichao Wang, Lu Wang, Yaping Pan, Xinxin Zheng, Xiaona Liang, Lili Sheng, Di Zhang & Qi Wang

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Wang, Z., Wang, L., Pan, Y. et al. Research advances on endophytic fungi and their bioactive metabolites. Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 46, 165–170 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00449-022-02840-7

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