Abstract

Epicoccum Species as Potent Factories for the Production of Compounds of Industrial, Medical, and Biological Control Applications

Highlights

  • Discovering new applications for currently known bioactive metabolites and/ or exploring novel biologically active metabolites are of critical need nowadays due to the current increasing dilemma of microbial resistance to available and used antibiotics and therapeutic agents, beside the emergence of new life threatening diseases

  • The aim of this review is to highlight the diversity of compounds produced by Epicoccum sp. and pointing out their medical, bio-control, and industrial applications

  • The aim of this review is to provide information about secondary metabolites of Epicoccum and their promising and current applications

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ARTICLE INFO

Epicoccum is an endophytic fungus famous for its application in the biocontrol of numerous phytopathogenic fungi. Epicoccum Sp. are known for their capability of producing various biologically active compounds with medical applications as antioxidant, antimicrobial, and anticancer agents. In addition to pigments formation and their industrial application. The aim of this review is to highlight the diversity of compounds produced by Epicoccum sp. Pointing out their medical, bio-control, and industrial applications

Introduction
Secondary Metabolites of Epicoccum Species
Compound Orsellinic acid
References potential factory for silver nanoparticles production
Yellow pigment Red pigment Orange
Depsipeptide macrolide
Conclusion

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