ABSTRACT
Whereas the majority of microorganisms that produce valuable products have been obtained predominantly from terrestrial sources, there has been a recent trend to collect microorganisms that are associated with other life forms such as endophytes of plants (Govindasamy et al., 2014). There has also been an evolving realization that the oceans, which cover a larger proportion of the earth’s surface, have a different microbial diversity,
15.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 279 15.2 Microbial sources ............................................................................................................... 281
15.2.1 Marine fungi ........................................................................................................... 281 15.2.2 Actinobacteria ........................................................................................................302 15.2.3 Bacteria ....................................................................................................................302
