Results and Discussion
The analysis of the whole genome sequence of fungi has
proven useful and provided many new insights into secondary
metabolism [9,10]. We have previously demonstrated that
none of the 54 endophytic fungi isolated from medicinal plants
produced any detectable levels of lovastatin even after 10 days
of incubation [4]. It was of interest that an endophytic strain of
Aspergillus terreus did not produce lovastatin while a soil isolate
of the same fungus produced significant levels of Lovastatin under
identical growth conditions. Therefore, an attempt was made to
analyze and compare the genetic makeup of these two isolates
of Aspergillus terreus and other endophytic fungi in relevance to
lovastatin production using bioinformatics tool