Mycotoxins are secondary fungal metabolites, toxic to humans, animals and plants. Among
the hundreds of known mycotoxins, aflatoxins, citrinin, patulin, penicillic acid, tenuazonic …

Nature produces a variety of different species, prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Among them,
fungi play a very important, but yet mostly unexplored role. Their widespread occurrence on …

Covering: 2007 to 2015 Fungal phytotoxins are secondary metabolites playing an important
role in the induction of disease symptoms interfering with host plant physiological processes …

A new cytochalasin dimer, verruculoid A (1), three new cytochalasin derivatives, including
12-nor-cytochalasin F (2), 22-methoxycytochalasin B6 (3), and 19-hydroxycytochalasin B …

Endophytes (fungal and bacterial organisms) have attracted great interest over the past few
years because their presence benefits the host plant (development and defence) and they …

Cytochalasans are a group of fungal-derived natural products characterized by a perhydro-
isoindolone core fused with a macrocyclic ring, and they exhibit a high structural diversity …

Recent materials are summarized, pertaining to classification of fungal phytotoxins, methods
of their isolation, and assays for biological activity. Producers of phytotoxic substances have …

Bioassay-guided fractionation of the fermentation extract of Xylaria sp. XC-16, an endophyte
from Toona sinensis led to the isolation of two new cytochalasans cytochalasin Z27, 1, and …

Stagonospora cirsii, a fungal pathogen isolated from Cirsium arvense and proposed as a
potential mycoherbicide of this perennial noxious weed, produces phytotoxic metabolites in …

Background and Aims Pathogen–seed interactions may involve a race for seed resources,
so that seeds that germinate more quickly, mobilizing reserves, will be more likely to escape …