Evaluation of the antimicrobial and cytotoxic potential of endophytic fungi extracts from mangrove plants Rhizophora stylosa and R. mucronata.

ABSTRACT: Mangrove endophytic fungi are tolerant to numerous stresses and are inevitably capable of exhibiting excellent biological activity by producing impressive numbers of metabolites with special biological functions, based on previous work on the biological potential of mangrove-derived endophytic fungi. To obtain marked antimicrobial and cytotoxic fermentation products of culturable endophytic fungi from mangrove forests, our research evaluated the antimicrobial and cytotoxic activities of crude extracts of endophytic fungi from Rhizophora stylosa and Rhizophora mucronata. Forty-six fungal isolates were cultured on four different media, namely, dextrose agar (PDA), Czapek's agar (CZA), rice medium (RM) and grain medium (GM) and harvested by ethyl acetate solvent at 40 days. The extracts were

SUBMITTER: Zhou J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8854691 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature