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as well as
Olea europaea
and the exotic
Ni-
gella sativa
aiming to identify such bioactive
compounds.
Conclusions
Medicinal plants offer an extensive biore-
source of new bioactive compounds that
have significant potential as antiparasit-
ics, antibiotics, antioxidants, and anticancer
agents. During the last 10 years it became
apparent that endophytes are capable to
produce the same bioactive secondary me-
tabolites as their hosts and therefore there
is a tremendous interest of the scientific
community towards isolation, characteriza-
tion and exploitation of endophytic fungi
from medicinal plants as was judged by the
amount of publications and number of pat-
ents (Gokhale
et al
., 2017).
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