Endophytes and Secondary Metabolites

1. A Thorough Comprehension of Host Endophytic Interaction Entailing the Biospherical Benefits: A Metabolomic Perspective

   • Shatrupa Ray, Jyoti Singh, Rahul Singh Rajput, Smriti Yadav, Surendra Singh, Harikesh Bahadur Singh

2. Antidiabetic and Antioxidant Activities of Bioactive Compounds from Endophytes

   • Rosa Martha Perez Gutierrez, Adriana Neira González

3. Bioactive Metabolites from Turkish Marine Invertebrates and Associated Fungi

   • Belma Konuklugil, Hajar Heydari

4. Biologically Active Compounds from Bacterial Endophytes

   • Pablo R. Hardoim

5. Current Understanding and Future Perspectives of Endophytic Microbes vis-a-vis Production of Secondary Metabolites

   • Shashank A. Tidke, S. Kiran, P. Giridhar, Ravishankar A. Gokare

6. Diversity of Plant Endophytic Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) and Their Potential Applications

   • Farhana Tasnim Chowdhury, Mohammad Riazul Islam, Md. Rakibul Islam, Haseena Khan

7. Diversity, Ecology, and Significance of Fungal Endophytes

   • Kandikere R. Sridhar

8. Endophyte-Mediated Host Stress Tolerance as a Means for Crop Improvement

   • Satyabrata Nanda, Bijayalaxmi Mohanty, Raj Kumar Joshi

9. Endophytes as a Source of High-Value, Bioactive Metabolites

   • Nitika Kapoor, Vijay Lakshmi Jamwal, Sumit G. Gandhi

10. Endophytes as Pollutant-Degrading Agents: Current Trends and Perspectives

    • Rúbia Carvalho Gomes Corrêa, Daiane Iark, Andressa de Sousa Idelfonso, Thais Marques Uber, Adelar Bracht, Rosane Marina Peralta

11. Endophytes as Source of High-Value Phytochemicals: Present Scenario and Future Outlook

    • Vijay Lakshmi Jamwal, Sumit G. Gandhi

12. Endophytes of Ginseng

    • Hosakatte Niranjana Murthy, Dayanand Dalawai, So-Young Park, Kee-Yoeup Paek

13. Endophytes of Nothapodytes nimmoniana (J. Graham) Mabb.

    • Hosakatte Niranjana Murthy, Dayanand Dalawai, So-Young Park, Kee-Yoeup Paek

14. Endophytic Fungi: A Cryptic Fountainhead for Biodiversity, Functional Metabolites, Host Stress Tolerance, and Myco-Mediated Nanoparticles (Nps) Synthesis

    • Jay Hind Nishad, Arti Singh, Veer Singh Gautam, Dharmendra Kumar, Jitendra Kumar, R. N. Kharwar

15. Endophytic Pseudomonads and Their Metabolites

    • Apekcha Bajpai, Bhavdish N. Johri

16. Endophytism in Zingiberaceae: Elucidation of Beneficial Impact

    • Avijit Chakraborty, Subrata Kundu, Swapna Mukherjee, Biswajit Ghosh

17. Fungal Endophytes -a Novel Source of Cytotoxic Compounds

    • Sunil K. Deshmukh, Manish K. Gupta, Ved Prakash, M. Sudhakara Reddy

18. Fungal Endophytes from Medicinal Plants as a Potential Source of Bioactive Secondary Metabolites and Volatile Organic Compounds: An Overview

    • Humeera Nisa, Azra N. Kamili

19. Fungal Endophytes: Rising Tools in Sustainable Agriculture Production

    • Hemraj Chhipa, Sunil K. Deshmukh

20. Identification and Determination of Characteristics of Endophytes from Rice Plants

    • Hadis Yousefi, N. Hasanzadeh

This reference work presents an authoritative review of endophytes and their applications to human welfare. Endophytes have become a class of interesting and curious microorganisms due to their intimate intra- and intercellular association with plants for competence, survival and reproduction. They can be bacteria or fungi, and they are usually non-pathogenic to their host. Endophytes have important applications in agriculture and industry, namely, they can help with plant growth, act as biocontrol agents and biosurfactant and secondary metabolite producers, and they are also rich sources of bioactive natural products.

Novel and beneficial effects of endophytes are constantly emerging, and this book, divided into four sections, provides readers with the latest developments in this fast expanding field. In the first section, readers will discover the biology of the major groups of endophytes, followed by a summary of conventional and molecular tools for endophytes’ identification in Section II. The production of high-value metabolites by endophytes will be explored in the third section of this book, and in the final section, readers will find several case studies, examples and prospects for endophytes’ application in agriculture and industry.

Written by leading international authors, this reference work will appeal to a wide readership, from students and researchers in the field of botany, biotechnology and agriculture to professionals interested in the production and applications of endophytic metabolites.

• Fungal Endophytes
• Bacterial Endophytes
• Secondary Metabolites
• Plant Biotechnology
• Phylogenetic and Chemical Diversity of Endophytes
• Molecular Tools for Endophytes indentification
• Endophytic Exopolysaccharides
• Actinobacteria
• Fungal Endophytic Communities in Grapevines
• Automated Ribosomal Intergenic Spacer Analysis (ARISA)
• Phytochemicals
• Volatome

• Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India

  Sumita Jha

Prof. Dr. Sumita Jha is Professor in Botany in the Centre of Advanced Study, Department of Botany of Calcutta University in India. She obtained her B.Sc. in Botany with Honours from the Lady Brabourne College in 1973. She then continued at Calcutta University, where she obtained her M.Sc. in 1975 and PhD in 1981 in Botany.

Sumitha Jha can look back on over 35 years of research experience in the fields of genetics and plant biotechnology. Her work has been honored with several awards during all stages of her career, from e.g. the “Science Academy Medal for Young Scientist” in 1983, to her election as Fellow of The National Academy of Sciences, India in 2008.

Prof. Jha has held positions at Calcutta University as University Lecturer, Reader, and then Professor in Botany and was visiting scientist e.g. in France and UK. She served as Head of the Department of Genetics and of the Department of Botany at her University.

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