Usually regarded as less evolved than their more recently diverged vascular sisters, which currently dominate vegetation landscape, bryophytes seem having nothing to envy to the defensive arsenal of other plants, since they had acquired a suite of chemical traits that allowed them to adapt and persist on land. In fact, these closest modern relatives of the ancestors to the earliest terrestrial plants proved to be marvelous chemists, as they traditionally were a popular remedy among tribal people all over the world, that exploit their pharmacological properties to cure the most different diseases. The phytochemistry of bryophytes exhibits a stunning assortment of biologically active compounds such as lipids, proteins, steroids, organic acids, alcohols, aliphatic and aromatic compounds, polyphenols, terpenoids, acetogenins and phenylquinones, thus it is not surprising that substances obtained from various species belonging to such ancestral plants are widely employed as antitumor, antipyretic, insecticidal and antimicrobial. This review explores in particular the antifungal potential of the three Bryophyta divisions—mosses (Musci), hornworts (Anthocerotae) and liverworts (Hepaticae)—to be used as a sources of interesting bioactive constituents for both pharmaceutical and agricultural areas, providing an updated overview of the latest relevant insights.

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苔藓活性：苔藓植物如何促进天然生物活性化合物对抗真菌的综述

苔藓植物通常被认为比最近分化的维管束姐妹进化程度较低，而后者目前在植被景观中占主导地位，苔藓植物似乎没有什么值得羡慕的其他植物的防御武库，因为它们已经获得了一套化学特征，使它们能够适应并持续存在土地。事实上，这些与最早的陆地植物祖先最接近的现代亲戚被证明是出色的化学家，因为它们传统上是世界各地部落人民中流行的药物，利用其药理特性来治疗大多数不同的疾病。苔藓植物的植物化学表现出令人惊叹的生物活性化合物种类，例如脂质、蛋白质、类固醇、有机酸、醇、脂肪族和芳香族化合物、多酚、萜类化合物、醋精苷和苯醌，因此从属于不同物种的物质中获得的物质并不奇怪。这些祖先植物被广泛用作抗肿瘤、解热、杀虫和抗菌剂。这篇综述特别探讨了苔藓植物（Musci）、金鱼藻（Anthocerotae）和地钱（Hepaticae）这三个苔藓植物门类的抗真菌潜力，它们可用作制药和农业领域有趣的生物活性成分的来源，提供最新的概述最新的相关见解。