MYCOCHEMICALS AND ANTIDIABETIC ACTIVITY OF LIGNOCOLOUS FUNGI – A CRITICAL REVIEW
PRAVEEN KUMAR NAGADESI *
Department of Botany, School of Life Science, St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
A. STEPHEN
Department of Botany, School of Life Science, St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Plants and fungi have a potential resource of natural compounds used as medicine. They have attracted the attention of humans because of their wide variety of nutraceuticals and biochemicals with bioactivity. A wide variety of mycochemical compounds isolated from different species of lignicolous mushrooms have been identified and their bioactivities like Antimicrobial, Antibacterial, Antiviral, Anthelminthic, Antifungal, Antioxidant, Anticancerous, Antidiabetic, immune boosters, etc. have been reported by different mycologist around the world. The present paper mainly focuses on the antidiabetic mushrooms widely growing in the forest, and cultivation. The lignicolous macro-fungi have different varieties of mycochemical compounds with pharmacological importance; so present papers mainly deal with mycochemicals, antidiabetic activity, and factors affecting the concentration of the mycochemical compounds in wild and cultivated lignicolous macro-fungi.
Keywords: Lignicolous macro - fungi, biochemicals, antidiabetic, mycochemical concentration
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