Fungal symbionts have been found associated with every plant studied in natural
ecosystem, where they colonize and reside entirely in the internal tissues of their host plant
or partially. Fungal endophytes can express/form a range of different lifestyle/relationships
with different host including symbiotic, mutualistic, commensalistic and parasitic in response
to host genotype and environmental factors. In mutualistic association fungal endophyte can
enhance growth, increase reproductive success and confer biotic and abiotic stress …