A DIGOXIN-LIKE FUNGAL GLYCOSIDE WITH CYTOTOXIC PROPERTIES: NOVEL ASSAY AND APPLICATIONS

摘要

The present invention provides methods of isolating cytotoxic metabolites from a fungus, and specific metabolites obtained from such methods. The present invention also provides methods of controlling fungal diseases in plants by treating the plants with cytotoxic metabolites as well as methods of treating cardiac arrhythmia in organisms in need of such treatment by administering the above-noted metabolites to such organisms.