*3.2. Fungal Material*

Fungus N-5 was isolated from the rhizosphere soil of mangrove plant *Avicennia marina* (collected in October 2021 from Nansha Mangrove National Nature Reserve in Guangdong Province, China). It was identified as *Penicillum* sp. by the ITS region (deposited in GenBank, accession no ON926808), and fungus N-5 was deposited at Sun Yat-sen University, China.
