Efficacy of seven fungicides and seven plant extracts were evaluated against two pathogenic species of fungi isolated from Senna alata L. in vitro. The isolated fungi were Colletotrichum gloeosporioides (Penz.) Sacc. and Pestalotiopsis guepinii (Desm.) Stay. Seven fungicides Acrobate MZ, Bavistin 50 WP, Indofil M-45, MC Sulphur 80 WP, Ridomil MZ Gold, Sulcox 50 WP and Tall 25 EC at 100, 200, 30...

Endophytic fungi are specific microbes that live at a specific ecosystem in nature. Various endophytic fungi have been known posses an ability to produce a broad range of biologically active substances. Totally 53 endophytic filamentous fungi were isolated from leaves, stems, fruits and roots of the two plant varieties of Uncaria gambier Roxb. (Rubiaceae), i.e. gambir udang and gambir nasi. Mor...

BACKGROUND Extraction and investigation of TAXOL from Pestalotiopsis breviseta (Sacc.) using protein docking, which is a computational technique that samples conformations of small molecules in protein-binding sites. Scoring functions are used to assess which of these conformations best complements the protein binding site and active site prediction. MATERIALS AND METHODS Coelomycetous fungi ...

A new antibacterial chlorinated benzophenone derivative, (±)-pestalachloride D (1), along with a related analog, (±)-pestalachloride C (2), was recently isolated from the marine-derived fungus Pestalotiopsis sp. isolated from a soft coral Sarcophyton sp. collected from Yongxing Island in the South China Sea. Both chiral HPLC analysis and single-crystal X-ray data indicated that 1 is a racemic m...