Current Research at Department of Natural Products
1. Biodiversity of Actinomycetes and its natural products from Nepalese soil.
Principal Investigator: Sagar Aryal, PhD (Department of Natural Products)
Publications of Department of Natural Products
- Aryal, S., Adhikari, R., Regmi, B., & Joshi, D. R. (2025). Antimicrobial potential of actinomycetes from high altitude Nepalese soils. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 33915. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-09357-5
- Aryal, S., Neupane, L., Adhikari, R., Regmi, B., & Joshi, D. R. (2025). Nocardia nepalensis sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated from forest soil in Pokhara, Nepal. The Microbe, 100282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microb.2025.100282
- Aryal, S., Adhikari, R., Regmi, B., & Joshi, D. R. (2025). Antibacterial Compounds of Actinomycetes Isolated From Altitude Soils. Journal of Nepal Health Research Council, 22(4), 784–791. https://doi.org/10.33314/jnhrc.v22i04.5552
- Aryal, S., Haeckl, F. J., Adhikari, R., Regmi, B., & Joshi, D. R. (2025). Antifungal Metabolites from High-Altitude Soil Actinomycetes Isolated from Nepal. Nepal Journal of Biotechnology, 13(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.54796/njb.v13i1.355
- Aryal, S., Neupane, L., Adhikari, R., Regmi, B., Koirala, N., & Joshi, D. R. (2020). Novel Streptomyces sp. reported in 2018: A Meta-Analysis. Anti-Infective Agents, 19(5), 3–14. https://doi.org/10.2174/2211352518666200423083354
- Shrestha, B., Nath, D. K., Maharjan, A., Poudel, A., Pradhan, R. N., & Aryal, S. (2021). Isolation and Characterization of Potential Antibiotic-Producing Actinomycetes from Water and Soil Sediments of Different Regions of Nepal. International journal of microbiology, 2021, 5586165. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/5586165
- Sapkota, A., Thapa, A., Budhathoki, A., Sainju, M., Shrestha, P., & Aryal, S*. (2020). Isolation, Characterization, and Screening of Antimicrobial-Producing Actinomycetes from Soil Samples. International journal of microbiology, 2020, 2716584. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/2716584
- Baniya, A., Singh, S., Singh, M., Nepal, P., Adhikari, M., Aryal, S., & Adhikari, A. (2019). Isolation and Screening of Antibiotics Producing Streptomyces spp from the Soil Collected around the Root of Alnus nepalensis from Godawari. Nepal Journal of Biotechnology, 6(1), 46–56. https://doi.org/10.3126/njb.v6i1.22337