Liverworts harbor diverse fungi, including endophytes, in their healthy tissues. To address
whether patterns of endophyte diversity are correlated with host phylogeny or geography …

Liverworts, the most ancient group of land plants, form a range of intimate associations with
fungi that may be analogous to the mycorrhizas of vascular plants. Most thalloid liverworts …

• Premise of the study: Endophytic and endolichenic fungi occur in healthy tissues of plants
and lichens, respectively, playing potentially important roles in the ecology and evolution of …

Fungal endophytes are ubiquitous fungi that inhabit healthy plant tissues without causing
disease. Endophytes have been found in every plant species examined to date and may be …

Nuclear ribosomal 18S and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequence data were used to
identify endophytic fungi cultured from six species of liverworts collected in Jamaica and …

Although associated with all plants, fungal endophytes (microfungi that live within healthy
plant tissues) represent an unknown proportion of fungal diversity. While there is a growing …

Biodiversity collections contain a wealth of information encapsulated both in specimens and
in their metadata, providing the foundation for diverse studies in fields such as ecology. Yet …

Fungal symbioses are ubiquitous in plants, but their effects have mostly been studied in
seed plants. This study aimed to assess the diversity of fungal endophyte effects in a …

Within their tissues, plants host diverse communities of fungi, termed fungal endophytes.
These fungi can affect plant growth, competitiveness, and resistance to stressors, thereby …

Fungal endophytes, a diverse group of primarily ascomycetous fungi defined functionally by
their occurrence within asymptomatic photosynthetic tissues of plants, occur in all major …