Microbial endophytes are well known to protect host plants against pathogens, thus
representing a promising strategy for the control of xylem-colonizing pathogens. To date, the …

Background Beneficial bacteria-plant interactions play an important role in agriculture,
positively affecting plant status and improving product quality. Bacterial endophytes …

Vascular pathogens are the causal agents of main diseases threatening the health and
growth of olive crops worldwide. The use of endophytic microorganisms represents a …

Endophytes have an intimate and often symbiotic interaction with their hosts. Less is known
about the composition and function of endophytes in trees. In order to evaluate our …

Oomycete and fungal pathogens, mainly Phytophthora and Fusarium species, are notorious
causal agents of huge economic losses and environmental damages. For instance …

A wide array of fungal endophytes is known to inhabit plant tissues and were recently
recognized as essential for plant health. A better description of the scarcely known …

Variation on bacterial communities living in the phyllosphere as epiphytes and endophytes
has been attributed to plant host effects. However, there is contradictory or inconclusive …

In nature, pathogens live and interact with other microorganisms on plant tissues. Yet, the
research area exploring interactions between bacteria-fungi and microbiota-plants, within …

Wild olive trees, namely oleaster, are considered the ancestor of cultivated olive and a
unexplored source of genetic variability that might contain important traits of agronomic and …

The plant microbiome plays an important role in plant biology, ecology, and evolution. While
recent technological developments enabled the characterization of plant-associated …