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Fungi with Great Promises: A Review

Sohail1, Muhammad Afzal, Zafar Iqbal, Inayat Ur Rahman, Sheena, Kalsoom Qureshi, Zafar Iqbal, Shujaul Mulk Khan, Aftab Afzal, and Muhammad Farooq

Fungi from the start are very important for human life. They play main role in the process of decomposition and mineralization. In recent year’s special attention have been made to fungi because of its ability to produce good number of new and interesting bioactive secondary metabolites, which are of pharmaceutical, industrial and agricultural importance. Several decades of research and numerous articles on fungi have resulted in a surfeit of knowledge of the group. The data in part however, has been biased by the biological activities of the fungal extracts used, and one question that should come to our mind is “how much do we really know about fungal species? Keeping these facts in view, the literatures on the biological assays of fungal extracts are reviewed in this paper.