Natural products derived from the medicinal plants are
used across the globe as pharmaceutical drugs, cosmetics,
fertilizers, insecticides, and pesticides. The over exploitation
of medicinal plants is a threat to their existence with several
taxa becoming extinct. Alternate sources of important
metabolites have focused on the ability of microbes associated
within the living tissues of plants “the endophytes” since two
decades after the discovery of taxol-producing endophytic
fungus Taxomyces andreanae from Taxus brevifolia [1]. All
nonvascular and vascular plants examined until now have
been found to harbor endophytic microbes with the potential
to produce novel secondary metabolites [2]. Bioprospecting
of endophytes has unraveled new molecules with therapeutic
potentials. Tropics being the areas of rich biodiversity provide
unique biological niches for endophytes with great diversity
[3].