The plant microbiomes play important role in plant growth promotion and soil fertility for
sustainable agriculture. Plant and soil are valuable natural resource harbouring hotspots of …

▪ Abstract Endophytic fungi living asymptomatically within plant tissues have been found in
virtually all plant species. Endophytes are considered plant mutualists: They receive nutrition …

Although the role of fungal alkaloids in protecting grasses associated with Epichloë fungal
endophytes has been extensively documented, the effects of the symbiont on the host plant's …

Plants may also be resistant to arthropods via the tolerance category of resistance, as
defined in Chapter 1, by possessing the ability to withstand or recover from damage caused …

In the past two decades, a great deal of information on the role of endophytic
microorganisms in nature has been collected. The capability of colonizing internal host …

▪ Abstract Grasses (family Poaceae) and fungi of the family Clavicipitaceae have a long
history of symbiosis ranging in a continuum from mutualisms to antagonisms. This …

"… a number of chapters provide excellent summaries of the modern methods available for
studying fungal ecology, along with those more traditional methods that are still extremely …

Endophyte-grass symbiosis is generally considered to be a classic example of microbe-
plant symbiosis in which the fitness of the microbial symbiont and its host plant is closely …

Model systems can facilitate and focus research efforts but ill-chosen or inapt ones can
distract or impede scientific progress. In this Opinion article, we pose the question: how can …

Endophytic fungi are common and diverse in plants. Yet the nature of their interactions with
host plants, and how these interactions cascade upward to communities and ecosystems …