Shugeng Cao
University of Hawaii USA
Biography
Shugeng Cao has his expertise in biologically active natural products from different sources, initially from plants, then from fungi and bacteria, and lately more on marine organisms. Besides drug discovery from natural sources, he is also interested in studying natural products in the fields of ecology and agriculture. At the Cancer Center and Daniel K Inouye College of Pharmacy, University of Hawaii, his lab has collected about 300 bacterial and more than 2,000 Hawaiian fungal strains from soil, marine and endophytes. A natural product library with more than 5,000 semi-pure fractions has been established, and it has been partially screened against a few cancer cell lines and human pathogenic microbes. Part of the library was also screened against plant pathogenic strains Ceratocystis fimbriata and Fusarium graminearum. A few strains in the library were confirmed to be active against the above-mentioned two plant pathogenic strains.
Abstract
Abstract : Secondary metabolites as bio-controlling against plant pathogens