Fungal endophytes and their role in agricultural plant protection against pests and pathogens

R Grabka, TW d'Entremont, SJ Adams, AK Walker… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Virtually all examined plant species harbour fungal endophytes which asymptomatically
infect or colonize living plant tissues, including leaves, branches, stems and roots …

Alternaria alternata as endophyte and pathogen

M DeMers - Microbiology, 2022 - microbiologyresearch.org
Alternaria alternata is a common species of fungus frequently isolated from plants as both an
endophyte and a pathogen. Although the current definition of A. alternata rests on a …

Maternal effects shape the seed mycobiome in Quercus petraea

T Fort, C Pauvert, AE Zanne, O Ovaskainen… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The tree seed mycobiome has received little attention despite its potential role in forest
regeneration and health. The aim of the present study was to analyze the processes shaping …

Litter chemistry influences decomposition through activity of specific microbial functional guilds

JM Bhatnagar, KG Peay… - Ecological Monographs, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Niche differentiation among species is a key mechanism by which biodiversity may be linked
to ecosystem function. We tested a set of widely invoked hypotheses about the extent of …

Facilitating reforestation through the plant microbiome: perspectives from the phyllosphere

PE Busby, G Newcombe, AS Neat… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Tree planting and natural regeneration contribute to the ongoing effort to restore Earth's
forests. Our review addresses how the plant microbiome can enhance the survival of planted …

Persephacin Is a Broad-Spectrum Antifungal Aureobasidin Metabolite That Overcomes Intrinsic Resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus

L Du, S Haldar, JB King, AO Mattes… - Journal of Natural …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Fungi pose a persistent threat to humankind with worrying indications that emerging and re-
emerging pathogens (eg, Candida auris, Coccidioides spp., drug-resistant Aspergilli, and …

Uniting the role of endophytic fungi against plant pathogens and their interaction

S Akram, A Ahmed, P He, P He, Y Liu, Y Wu, S Munir… - Journal of Fungi, 2023 - mdpi.com
Endophytic fungi are used as the most common microbial biological control agents (MBCAs)
against phytopathogens and are ubiquitous in all plant parts. Most of the fungal species …

Double lives: transfer of fungal endophytes from leaves to woody substrates

A Nelson, R Vandegrift, GC Carroll, BA Roy - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
Fungal endophytes are a ubiquitous feature of plants, yet for many fungi the benefits of
endophytism are still unknown. The Foraging Ascomycete (FA) hypothesis proposes that …

Pyrophilous fungi detected after wildfires in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park expand known species ranges and biodiversity estimates

KW Hughes, PB Matheny, AN Miller, RH Petersen… - Mycologia, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Following a late fall wildfire in 2016 in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park,
pyrophilous fungi in burn zones were documented over a 2-y period with respect to burn …

Endophytism and endolichenism in Pezizomycetes: the exception or the rule?

RA Healy, AE Arnold, G Bonito, YL Huang… - New …, 2022 - search.ebscohost.com
S7 Phylogeny based on ITS sequences of Discinaceae endophytic or endolichenic fungi
analyzed with ML. Figs S8 and S9 Phylogeny based on ITS sequences of Morchellaceae …