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ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 115, Issue 6, Pages 699-730Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s10482-022-01736-6
Keywords
Antimicrobial compounds; Biological nitrogen fixation; Internal microbiome; Phytochemistry; Quorum sensing
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- ICAR-CAZRI, Jodhpur , Rajasthan
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Medicinal and aromatic plants have the potential to synthesize a wide range of therapeutic bioactive secondary metabolites, and the internal microbiome plays a crucial role in their production. This review discusses the host specific secondary metabolites produced by endophytes, their therapeutic properties, and the role of endophytes in enhancing the production of bioactive secondary metabolites. The importance of endophytes in promoting plant growth and increasing the content of bioactive secondary metabolites in a sustainable manner is highlighted.
Medicinal and aromatic plants possess pharmacological properties (antidiabetes, anticancer, antihypertension, anticardiovascular, antileprosy, etc.) because of their potential to synthesize a wide range of therapeutic bioactive secondary metabolites. The concentration of bioactive secondry metabolites depends on plant species, local environment, soil type and internal microbiome. The internal microbiome of medicinal plants plays the crucial role in the production of bioactive secondary metabolites, namely alkaloids, steroids, terpenoids, peptides, polyketones, flavonoids, quinols and phenols. In this review, the host specific secondry metabolites produced by endophytes, their therapeutic properties and host-endophytes interaction in relation to production of bioactive secondry metaboloites and the role of endophytes in enhancing the production of bioactive secondry metabolites is discussed. How biological nitrogen fixation, phosphorus solubilization, micronutrient uptake, phytohormone production, disease suppression, etc. can play a vital role in enhacing the plant growth and development.The role of endophytes in enhancing the plant growth and content of bioactive secondary metabolites in medicinal and aromatic plants in a sustainable mode is highlighted.
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