药用植物内生真菌资源——一个亟待开发的宝库

Endophytic fungal resource of medicinal plants——a treasure need to be developed urgently

内生真菌与药用植物在长期的协同进化过程中形成了特殊的互惠共生关系,内生真菌在药用植物的生长、道地性、产量、质量、功效成分、抗逆性等方面都产生重要的影响;另一方面,药用植物内生真菌自身也能产生一些生理活性物质,在新药研发、药用植物栽培生产、菌肥开发、生防菌研发、土壤生态修复、工业化酶生产应用等方面都显示出巨大的开发潜力。我国药用植物资源丰富,其中更是蕴含着许多还不为人知的内生真菌类群,这一资源宝库亟待人们探索、开发。

A special symbiotic relationship perpetually exists between endophytic fungi and host medicinal plants. Endophytic fungi have an important effect on growth, productivity, quality, bioactive compounds and adversity resistance of medicinal plants. Some physiologically active compounds produced by endophytic fungi of medicinal plants have shown a huge potential in new drug research and development, medicinal plant cultivation, fungal fertilizer development, biological control agent development, contaminated soil bioremediation and industrialized production of enzyme. The richness of medicinal plants in China must be endowed with a large number of unknown endophytic fungi. This resource treasure need to be explored and developed urgently.