Plants are hosts to complex communities of endophytic bacteria that colonize the interior of
both below-and aboveground tissues. Bacteria living inside plant tissues as endophytes can …

Background The development and dispersal of seeds as well as their transition to seedlings
represent perhaps the most critical stages of a plant's life cycle. The endophytic and …

Plant microbiomes play an important role in agricultural productivity, but there is still much to
learn about their provenance, diversity, and organization. In order to study the role of vertical …

Although the importance of plant‐associated microorganisms for plant growth and health
was getting more recognition recently, the role of seed‐associated microorganisms, and …

While the environment is considered the primary origin of the plant microbiome, the potential
role of seeds as a source of transmitting microorganisms has not received much attention …

Phytobeneficial microbes, particularly endophytes, such as fungi and bacteria, are
concomitant partners of plants throughout its developmental stages, including seed …

Endophytic bacteria often promote plant growth and protect their host plant against
pathogens, herbivores, and abiotic stresses including drought, increased salinity or …

Endophytes are non-pathogenic microbes living inside plants. We asked whether
endophytic species were conserved in the agriculturally important plant genus Zea as it …

Some microorganisms are adapted to an endophytic mode, living symbiotically with plants
through vertical transmission in seeds. The role of plant growth-promoting endophytes has …

Plant–microbe interactions are ubiquitous. Plants are threatened by pathogens, but they are
even more commonly engaged in neutral or mutualistic interactions with microbes …