Abstract
The genus Artemisia, a collection of ~400 hardy herbaceous plant and shrub species, is an important resource contributing to chemistry, medicine, agriculture, industry, and ecology. Its communities of endophytic fungi have only recently begun to be explored. Summarized from studies conducted on the fungal endophytes in Artemisia species, both fungal phylogenetic diversity and the associated bioactivity was examined. Isolations from 14 species of Artemisia have led to 51 genera of fungal endophytes, 28 families, and 18 orders. Endophytes belonged mainly to Ascomycota, except for two taxa of Cantharellales and Sporidiobolales, one taxon of Mucoromycota, and one species of Oomycota. The mostly common families were Pleosporaceae, Trichocomaceae, Leptosphaeriaceae, and Botryosphaeriaceae (relative abundance = 14.89, 8.51, 7.14 and 6.38, respectively). In the search for bioactive metabolites, 27 novel compounds were characterized and 22 metabolites were isolated between 2006 and 2017. The first study on endophytic fungi isolated from species of Artemisia was published but 18 years ago. This summary of recently acquired data illustrates the considerable diversity of biological purposes addressed by fungal endophytes of Artemisia spp.
Highlights
State of the ArtArtemisia is a genus of plants highly valued as a source of metabolites useful in, for example, medicine and biopesticides
The genus Artemisia, a collection of ~400 hardy herbaceous plant and shrub species, is an important resource contributing to chemistry, medicine, agriculture, industry, and ecology
Biological activity was detected in a series of compounds such as eupatilin [5]; artemisolide [6]; α-thujone [7]; chamazulene, 1,8-cineole, and β-caryophyllene [8]; luteolin [9]; and eriodictyol [10,11,12]
Summary
Artemisia is a genus of plants highly valued as a source of metabolites useful in, for example, medicine and biopesticides. The comparative number of publications was up (Scopus—88 entries, 0.7%; entries, 0.9%; and CAB Direct—two entries, 0.45%). The search was performed for the title, abstract and keywords or descriptors, descriptors, where possible (i.e., in Scopus and CAB Direct). Values in squares are the number of where possible (i.e., in Scopus and CAB Direct). We might extrapolate that the rest of 37.5% of the publications regard of publications containing “Artemisia endophytes”, except in CAB Direct and PubMed where no bacterial endophytic communities in Artemisia. Artemisia within the Taxus genus.library—2062 hits versus 719, respectively) These values reflect the great interest absinthium Up-to-date information in Table 2 summarises the findings from research into endophytes of Artemisia endophytic communities
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