Living inside plants: bacterial endophytes

B Reinhold-Hurek, T Hurek - Current opinion in plant biology, 2011 - Elsevier
As current research activities have focused on symbiotic or parasitic plant–microbe
interactions, other types of associations between plants and microorganisms are often …

The hidden world within plants: ecological and evolutionary considerations for defining functioning of microbial endophytes

PR Hardoim, LS Van Overbeek, G Berg… - Microbiology and …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
All plants are inhabited internally by diverse microbial communities comprising bacterial,
archaeal, fungal, and protistic taxa. These microorganisms showing endophytic lifestyles …

[HTML][HTML] Bacterial endophyte colonization and distribution within plants

SL Kandel, PM Joubert, SL Doty - Microorganisms, 2017 - mdpi.com
The plant endosphere contains a diverse group of microbial communities. There is general
consensus that these microbial communities make significant contributions to plant health …

Bacterial endophytes: who and where, and what are they doing there?

N Malfanova, BJJ Lugtenberg… - … microbial ecology of the …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Bacterial endophytes are ubiquitous colonizers of the inner plant tissues where they do not
normally cause any substantial morphological changes and disease symptoms. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Plant-microbial endophytes interactions: scrutinizing their beneficial mechanisms from genomic explorations

M del Carmen Orozco-Mosqueda, G Santoyo - Current Plant Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
The study of plant-endophyte interactions is complex and difficult to decipher. In part, this is
because they are dynamic and diverse; these interactions can be mutualistic …

[HTML][HTML] Plant beneficial endophytic bacteria: Mechanisms, diversity, host range and genetic determinants

I Afzal, ZK Shinwari, S Sikandar, S Shahzad - Microbiological research, 2019 - Elsevier
Endophytic bacteria are the plant beneficial bacteria that thrive inside plants and can
improve plant growth under normal and challenging conditions. They can benefit host plants …

[HTML][HTML] Interaction between bacterial endophytes and host plants

S Mushtaq, M Shafiq, MR Tariq, A Sami… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Endophytic bacteria are mainly present in the plant's root systems. Endophytic bacteria
improve plant health and are sometimes necessary to fight against adverse conditions …

The invisible life inside plants: Deciphering the riddles of endophytic bacterial diversity

J Papik, M Folkmanova, M Polivkova-Majorova… - Biotechnology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Endophytic bacteria often promote plant growth and protect their host plant against
pathogens, herbivores, and abiotic stresses including drought, increased salinity or …

[HTML][HTML] Multifaceted interactions between endophytes and plant: developments and prospects

E Khare, J Mishra, NK Arora - Frontiers in microbiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Microbial endophytes are present in all known plant species. The ability to enter and thrive
in the plant tissues makes endophytes unique, showing multidimensional interactions within …

Impact of bacterial–fungal interactions on the colonization of the endosphere

LS van Overbeek, K Saikkonen - Trends in plant science, 2016 - cell.com
Research on different endophyte taxa and the related scientific disciplines have largely
developed separately, and comprehensive community-level studies on bacterial and fungal …