“…+++ +++ ++ ++ +++ + --: no activity (<10 mm); +: activity (10-15 mm); ++: good activity (15-20 mm); +++: very good activity (>20 mm) (Mazzini et al, 2001;Tong et al, 2004;Chen et al, 2005). Hypocrellins, as dominant compounds, were extracted from S. bambusicola (Wan and Chen, 1981), and have attracted a great deal of attention because of their lightinduced antifungal, antiviral and antitumor activity, especially against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (Kocisova et al, 1999;Wang et al, 1999;Mirossay et al, 2000;Xu et al, 2001;Yang et al, 2001;Ali and Olivo, 2002;Deininger et al, 2002;Zhou et al, 2003;Chin et al, 2004).…”