Fungal Identification Using Molecular Tools: A Primer for the Natural Products Research Community.

ABSTRACT: Fungi are morphologically, ecologically, metabolically, and phylogenetically diverse. They are known to produce numerous bioactive molecules, which makes them very useful for natural products researchers in their pursuit of discovering new chemical diversity with agricultural, industrial, and pharmaceutical applications. Despite their importance in natural products chemistry, identification of fungi remains a daunting task for chemists, especially those who do not work with a trained mycologist. The purpose of this review is to update natural products researchers about the tools available for molecular identification of fungi. In particular, we discuss (1) problems of using morphology alone in the identification of fungi to the species level; (2) the three nuclear ribosomal genes most comm

SUBMITTER: Raja HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5368684 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature