Fungi are rich, underexploited reservoirs for natural products that may serve as medicines,
commodity chemicals, insecticides, pesticides and other valuable chemicals. Moreover, the …

Highlights•Fungi are an excellent source of drugs, and their full potential in producing
different metabolites is still largely untapped.•Several heterologous platforms have been …

Covering: up to May 2014 Despite their oftentimes-elusive ecological role, fungal natural
products have, for better or worse, impacted our daily lives tremendously owing to their …

Recent published sequencing of fungal genomes has revealed that these microorganisms
have a surprisingly large number of secondary metabolite pathways that can serve as …

Fungal secondary metabolites are defined by bioactive properties that ensure adaptation of
the fungus to its environment. Although some of these natural products are promising …

One of the exciting movements in microbial sciences has been a refocusing and
revitalization of efforts to mine the fungal secondary metabolome. The magnitude of …

Natural products play important roles not only in the environment but also as useful
compounds in various applications like in medicine or plant protection. An enormous …

Natural products, which can be isolated from living organisms worldwide, have played a
pivotal role in drug discovery since ancient times. However, it has become more challenging …

Secondary metabolites synthesized by fungi have become a precious source of inspiration
for the design of novel drugs. Indeed, fungi are prolific producers of fascinating, diverse …

Covering: 2010 to 2022 Heterologous expression of natural product biosynthetic gene
clusters (BGCs) has become a widely used tool for genome mining of cryptic pathways …