Endophytism of Penicillium Species in Woody Plants

Abstract

Abstract:The genus Penicillium is ubiquitous and its species are commonly recovered from every kind of substrate and environmental conditions. Therefore, not surprisingly, Penicillium strains are commonly reported in investigations dealing with fungal endophytic assemblages of plants in both natural and anthropic contexts. As such they are implicated in more or less effective relationships with the host, and involved in applicative issues concerning plant protection and the production of bioactive compounds to be exploited as pharmaceuticals. The available data on occurrence, biocenotic role, production and bioactivities of secondary metabolites of Penicillium strains which have been isolated as endophytes from woody plants are reviewed in the present paper in the aim to introduce the state of the art to researchers involved in this particular field.

Plant growth-promoting activities for bacterial and fungal endophytes isolated from medicinal plant of Teucrium polium L.

“…Selim et al [12] obtained 6 fungal endophytes namely Aspergillus niger , Alternaria alternate , Nigrospora sphaerica , Penicillium corylophilum , Penicillium chrysogenoum , and white sterile mycelia isolated from T. polium . Nicoletti et al [33] reviewed the endophytism ubiquitous of penicillium genus in several woody plants; also, different endophytic penicillium species were isolated from coffee plants [34] . Broad screening techniques based on culture-dependent or independent methods to determine the endophyte-plant association is required in order to understand the specific relationship between plants and endophytes.…”

New R-Based Methodology to Optimize the Identification of Root Endophytes against Heterobasidion parviporum

“…Penicillium is a genus of well-known root endophytes that include non-DSE species found in grasses [83], orchids [67], and woody plants [84]. Penicillium spp.…”

Antimicrobial activity of endophytic fungi from olive tree leaves

“…Both P. canescens and P. commune were found to be the most potent against bacteria, whereas A. alternata showed higher activity against yeasts. Several species belonging to the genus Penicillium have already been reported as being prolific producers of bioactive secondary metabolites (Nicoletti et al 2014), including of antimicrobial compounds (Yu et al 2010). However, to our knowledge, the antimicrobial potential of the endophytes P. commune (Moghaddam et al Table 3 Volatile profile of the endophytic fungi Penicillium canescens and Alternaria alternata Volatile profile of the endophytic fungi P. canescens and A. alternata growing under in vitro conditions, expressed in chromatographic normalized peak area (mean ± SD, n = 4).…”

“…Compounds found in the uninoculated PDA medium (control) are not included in this table and were used to subtract any possible compounds from the medium. Different superscript lower case letters denote statistically significant differences (p < 0.05) between fungal species 2013) and P. canescens (Bertinetti et al 2009;Nicoletti et al 2014) was only explored against phytopathogenic fungi. Studies focusing antimicrobial activity of P. commune against human pathogens are mainly performed with marine sediment-derived strains (Gao et al 2011).…”