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Our Biodiversity =
Your Chemical and Pharmacological Diversity

 

FUNGI
The approach used for isolation has enabled us to assemble great diversity with Basidiomycete, Ascomycete, Zygomycete and Deuteromycete representation. A partial list of slow growing, less common fungi in our collection include Acremonium, Arthrinium, Beltraniella, Bispora, Chalara, Choridium, Codinaea, Colletotrichum, Drechslera, Epicoccum, Exophiala, Fusidium, Geotrichum, Gilmaniella, Monocllium, Nigrospora, Nodulisporium, Papulaspora, Phialophora, Pithomyces, Rhinocladiella, Scolecobasidium, Thozetalla, Verticilium, Wallemia and Wardomyces. The fast growing, commonly isolated genera includes Alternaria, Aspergillus, Aureobasidium, Cladosporium, Oidiodendron, Penicllium and Trichoderma. Many isolates remain unidentified and the collection undoubtedly contains fungi that have not been described the literature.


PHARMACOLOGY

Fungal metabolites showing activity in screens and assays addressing the following have been discovered from the MSX fungal collection.


Infectious diseases including bacterial, viral, fungal and parasitic, herbicides and insecticides, cancer, diabetes and other metabolic disorders, transcription regulators against a wide variety of targets for blood disorders such as anemia and sickle cell anemia, CNS associated targets, etc.

 

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