Ethnopharmacological relevance In particular five polypore species, ie Laetiporus
sulphureus, Fomes fomentarius, Fomitopsis pinicola, Piptoporus betulinus, and Laricifomes …

Research on natural products containing benzofuran has remarkably increased during the
past few decades. Newly isolated natural products with complex structures are being …

Laetiporus species are brown rot fungi belonging to the order Polyporales in the division
Basidiomycota. These species produce a variety of metabolites and provide a great source …

Laetiporus sulphureus is a sulphur yellow coloured polyporous mushroom and popularly
known as “chicken of the woods”. Over the generations, this cosmopolitan macrofungus has …

In this study we extracted bioactive ingredients from fruiting bodies of Laetiporus sulphureus
with different solvents and tested the antimicrobial and antitumor activities. The predominant …

Sulphur shelf fungus (Laetiporus sulphureus) has so far been largely underestimated as a
potential raw material for the food industry. Many studies have demonstrated that the …

Seven new drimane-type sesquiterpenoids, sulphureuines B–H (1–7), together with four
known compounds (8–11), were obtained from cultures of mushroom Laetiporus …

Extracts of Ganoderma tsugae, also known as the Hemlock varnish shelf mushroom, and
related Reishi mushrooms are well documented in traditional Chinese medicine. Several …

Nature is an attractive source of therapeutic and preventive compounds, and with such
chemical diversity found in millions of species of plants, over 60% of currently used …

Currently, primaquine is the only malaria transmission-blocking drug recommended by the
WHO. Recent efforts have highlighted the importance of discovering new agents that …