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Symbiotically modified organisms: Nontoxic fungal endophytes in grasses
(Elsevier Science London, 2013-04)
We propose that symbiotically modified organisms (SMOs) should be taken into account in sustainable agriculture. In this opinion article, we present the results of a meta-analysis of the literature, with a particular focus ...
Dynamics of Neotyphodium endophyte infection in ageing seed pools: Incidence of differential viability loss of endophyte, infected seed and non-infected seed
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2010-03)
Symbiotic associations between grasses and vertically transmitted endophytic fungi are widespread in nature. Within grass populations, changes in the frequency of infected plants are driven by influence of the endophyte ...
Mutualism effectiveness of a fungal endophyte in an annual grass is impaired by ozone
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2016-02)
Ozone is an increasing tropospheric contaminant of climate change. Exposure to ozone may affect the symbiotic relationship between plants and beneficial microorganisms. In particular, the herbivore resistance mechanism ...
Environmental context of endophyte symbioses: Interacting effects of water stress and insect herbivory
(University of Chicago Press, 2011-05)
Symbiotic associations between grasses and fungal endophytes are generally regarded as mutualistic, yet benefits to host plants may vary with environmental context. Previous studies have emphasized how endophytes influence ...
Epichloid endophytes confer resistance to the smut Ustilago bullata in the wild grass Bromus auleticus (Trin.)
(Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, 2013-06-19)
In this work it was studied for the first time whether asexual Epichloë (Neotyphodium) endophytes of Bromus auleticus, protect their host plants against the pathogenic fungus Ustilago bullata.Seeds of two different ecotypes ...
An ecological framework for understanding the roles of Epichloë endophytes on plant defenses against fungal diseases
(Elsevier, 2020-11)
Plants harbor a wide diversity of microorganisms in their tissues. Some of them have a long co-evolutionary history with their hosts, likely playing a pivotal role in regulating the plant interaction with other microbes ...
Plant functional traits and phylogenetic relatedness explain variation in associations with root fungal endophytes in an extreme arid environment
(Springer, 2014-07-06)
Since root endophytes may ameliorate drought stress, understanding which plants associate with endophytes is important, especially in arid ecosystems. Here, the root endophytes were characterized of 42 plants from an arid ...
Ecotype-specific effects of fungal endophytes on germination responses of seeds of the South American wild forage grass Bromus auleticus
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2021-09-26)
Bromus auleticus is a winter wild species with promissory characteristics for domestication as forage that inhabits temperate-warm grasslands from a wide region from South America. Populations from regions with different ...
Optical study of laser biospeckle activity in leaves of Jatropha curcas L.: a non-invasive and indirect assessment of foliar endophyte colonization
(Springer Heidelberg, 2020-03)
Currently, the detection of endophytic fungi is mostly determined by invasive methods, including direct isolation of fungal organisms from plant tissue in growth media, molecular detection of endophytic fungi DNA from plant ...
The plant hormone salicylic acid interacts with the mechanism of anti‐herbivory conferred by fungal endophytes in grasses
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2018-02)
The plant hormone salicylic acid (SA) is recognized as an effective defence against biotrophic pathogens, but its role as regulator of beneficial plant symbionts has received little attention. We studied the relationship ...