Abstract
Fungal endophytes are microorganisms that internally infect living plant tissues without causing any visible symptom of infection, and live symbiotic relationship with plants for at least a part of their life cycle. Now-a-days endophytic fungi are used as novel source for getting novel bioactive compounds with increase in yield. This review contains endophyte diversity and production of secondary metabolites through fermentation process with their activity as anticancerous, antimicrobial, antiviral, antibiotics along with huge number of other secondary metabolites for potential application in medicine and agriculture. The drug resistance, toxicity are problems caused by synthetic drug overcome by producing secondary metabolite by using plant containing endophytic fungi. So that, in future this technique will be used to get huge number of bioactive compounds for effective treatment from endophytic fungi through fermentation process.
