[Isolation and identification of an endophytic fungus of Polygonatum cyrtonema and its antifungal metabolites].

OBJECTIVE

Endophytic fungi in medicinal plants produce a variety of bioactivity compounds. In this study, an endophytic fungus zjqy610 with antifungal activity was isolated from Polygonatum cyrtonema in Zhejiang Qingyuan Baishanzu Mountain nature reserve.

METHODS

Strain zjqy610 was identified as Penicillium canescens based on the morphology and its rDNA sequence analysis. Three antifungal compounds were isolated from the fermentation broth of zjqy610 through normal-phase silica gel column chromatography and gel (Sephadex LH-20) column chromatography, traced by ultraviolet light or iodine vapor with bioassay-guided fractionation.

RESULTS

These three compounds were elucidated as o-acetylbenzeneamidinocarboxylic acid (zjqy610B-g-3), griseofulvin (zjqy610D-4) and naphtho [1,2-b] furan-3-carboxylic acid, 4-hydroxy-5-methoxy-2-methyl-(zjqy610F-2) based on mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The antifungal activity assays showed that the three compounds had inhibitory to variety of plant pathogenic fungi. Compound zjqy610D-4 had strong antifungal activity against Botrytis cinerea, Colletotrichum orbiculare, Didymella bryoniae and Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. EC50 was 0.68, 0.38, 0.91 and 0.61 mg/L, respectively.

CONCLUSIONS

Zjqy610D-4 is deserved to develop an agricultural antibiotics.