Plants association with fungi

Parbery, D.G. Trophism and the ecology of fungi associated with plants. Biol Rev 1996 71 473-527. 

Although numerous genera of fungi may be associated with plant roots, only a restricted number appear to be isolated from apparently healthy roots with high frequency, i.e. Fusarium,... 

The secondary metabolites of the endophytic fungi associated with dicotyledonous plants (dicots) are chemically diverse (Table 1). There is an equal diversity in the activities of these compounds, including antibacterial, antifungal, nematicidal, phytotoxic, cytotoxic, antineoplastic, anti-insectant, anti-herbivory, and a variety of other activities. The compounds isolated, structurally elucidated, and explored biologically in the short time since previous reviews continue to display that same wide array of chemical and biological diversity. 

Efuntoye, M. 1996-97. Fungi associated with herbal drug plants during storage. Mycopathologia 136, 115-118. 

Hoffman et al. [96] found that microbe-free cultures of fliese plants as well as fungi associated with branches of these plants are able to produce paclitaxel and several other taxanes responsible for the production of paclitaxel and related taxanes in hazelnut trees. Similar arrangements of endophytic fungi have been noted in the Pacific yew [97,98]. All the fungi that make paclitaxel are associated with healthy plants. 

Mattison, J.E., L.L. McDowell, and R.H. Baum, 1971. Cometabolism of selected monoterpenoids by fungi associated with monoterpenoid-containing plants. Bacteriol. Proc., 1971 141. 

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