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Medicinal Plants and Their Bacterial Microbiota: A Review on Antimicrobial Compounds Production for Plant and Human Health
Medicinal plants (MPs) have been used since antiquity in traditional and popular medicine, and they represent a very important source of bioactive molecules, including antibiotic, antiviral, and antifungal molecules. Such compounds are often of plant origin, but in some cases, an origin or a modific...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7911374/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33498987 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10020106 |
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author | Castronovo, Lara Mitia Vassallo, Alberto Mengoni, Alessio Miceli, Elisangela Bogani, Patrizia Firenzuoli, Fabio Fani, Renato Maggini, Valentina |
author_facet | Castronovo, Lara Mitia Vassallo, Alberto Mengoni, Alessio Miceli, Elisangela Bogani, Patrizia Firenzuoli, Fabio Fani, Renato Maggini, Valentina |
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description | Medicinal plants (MPs) have been used since antiquity in traditional and popular medicine, and they represent a very important source of bioactive molecules, including antibiotic, antiviral, and antifungal molecules. Such compounds are often of plant origin, but in some cases, an origin or a modification from plant microbiota has been shown. Actually, the research continues to report the production of bioactive molecules by plants, but the role of plant–endophytic interaction is emerging. Classic examples are mainly concerned with fungal endophytes; however, it has been recently shown that bacterial endophytes can also play an important role in influencing the plant metabolism related to the synthesis of bioactive compounds. In spite of this, a deep investigation on the power of MP bacterial endophytes is lacking. Here, an overview of the studies on MP bacterial microbiota and its role in the production of plant antimicrobial compounds contributing to prime host defense system and representing a huge resource for biotech and therapeutic applications is provided. |
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spelling | pubmed-79113742021-02-28 Medicinal Plants and Their Bacterial Microbiota: A Review on Antimicrobial Compounds Production for Plant and Human Health Castronovo, Lara Mitia Vassallo, Alberto Mengoni, Alessio Miceli, Elisangela Bogani, Patrizia Firenzuoli, Fabio Fani, Renato Maggini, Valentina Pathogens Review Medicinal plants (MPs) have been used since antiquity in traditional and popular medicine, and they represent a very important source of bioactive molecules, including antibiotic, antiviral, and antifungal molecules. Such compounds are often of plant origin, but in some cases, an origin or a modification from plant microbiota has been shown. Actually, the research continues to report the production of bioactive molecules by plants, but the role of plant–endophytic interaction is emerging. Classic examples are mainly concerned with fungal endophytes; however, it has been recently shown that bacterial endophytes can also play an important role in influencing the plant metabolism related to the synthesis of bioactive compounds. In spite of this, a deep investigation on the power of MP bacterial endophytes is lacking. Here, an overview of the studies on MP bacterial microbiota and its role in the production of plant antimicrobial compounds contributing to prime host defense system and representing a huge resource for biotech and therapeutic applications is provided. MDPI 2021-01-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7911374/ /pubmed/33498987 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10020106 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Castronovo, Lara Mitia Vassallo, Alberto Mengoni, Alessio Miceli, Elisangela Bogani, Patrizia Firenzuoli, Fabio Fani, Renato Maggini, Valentina Medicinal Plants and Their Bacterial Microbiota: A Review on Antimicrobial Compounds Production for Plant and Human Health |
title | Medicinal Plants and Their Bacterial Microbiota: A Review on Antimicrobial Compounds Production for Plant and Human Health |
title_full | Medicinal Plants and Their Bacterial Microbiota: A Review on Antimicrobial Compounds Production for Plant and Human Health |
title_fullStr | Medicinal Plants and Their Bacterial Microbiota: A Review on Antimicrobial Compounds Production for Plant and Human Health |
title_full_unstemmed | Medicinal Plants and Their Bacterial Microbiota: A Review on Antimicrobial Compounds Production for Plant and Human Health |
title_short | Medicinal Plants and Their Bacterial Microbiota: A Review on Antimicrobial Compounds Production for Plant and Human Health |
title_sort | medicinal plants and their bacterial microbiota: a review on antimicrobial compounds production for plant and human health |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7911374/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33498987 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10020106 |
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