Plant pathogens, Isolation of Drechslera maydis, Production of culture filtrates from Drechslera isolates, M-1-D medium, PMDA medium, Extraction of the metabolites of Drechslera cynodontis, Isolation and purification of metabolites, Identification of bioactive compounds, Thin layer chromatography (TLC), Preparative TLC, Column Chromatography (CC), Solvent systems, Electron Impact Mass Spectra (EI- MS), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Distortionless Enhancement by Polarization Transfer (DEPT), Correlation Spectroscopy (COSY), Heteronuclear Multiple Quantum Coherence (HMQC), Heteronuclear Multiple Bond Connectivity (HMBC), DMSO, Dihydrobipolaroxin, Sorokinianin, Antifungal activity against some important phytopathogens, Effects on spore germination of various phytopathogenic fungi, Determination of the minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC), Pathogenicity tests, Disease assessment, Effect on the development of the damping-off disease.