ReviewPlant signaling & behavior2011
Unraveling the role of fungal symbionts in plant abiotic stress tolerance.
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79 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- A Systematic Review on the Effects ofFrontiers in plant science · 2021Pooled it
- The Importance of Different Species ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Insights into the Mechanism Underlying the Symbiosis between Seagrass and a Lulworthiaceae Fungus.Microbial ecology · 2026Article
- Synergistic fungal consortia enhance maize growth and soil biological functions under microplastic stress.BMC plant biology · 2026Article
- Aspergillus conicus Endophyte Improves the Development of Eucalyptus camaldulensis Seedlings In Vitro.Journal of basic microbiology · 2026Article
- Concurrent ecological and evolutionary processes contribute to mutualism breakdown between legumes and rhizobia.The ISME journal · 2026Article
- The metatranscriptomic response of the wheat rhizosphere to drought varies with growth stages.ISME communications · 2026Article
- Battle of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Against Drought Stress: A Gateway to Sustainable Agriculture.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Symbiotic FungusPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Exploring the bacterial communities in date palm roots in saline versus non-saline environment.BMC plant biology · 2025Article
- Although invisible, fungi are recognized as the engines of a microbial powerhouse that drives soil ecosystem services.Archives of microbiology · 2025Review
- Biopriming of Maize with their endophyte Aspergillus fumigatus reinforces their resistance to salinity stress and improves their physiological traits.BMC plant biology · 2024Article
- Lessons from Extremophiles: Functional Adaptations and Genomic Innovations across the Eukaryotic Tree of Life.Genome biology and evolution · 2024Article
- Endophyte Inoculation and Elevated Potassium Supply on Productivity, Growth and Physiological Parameters of Spring Barley (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- An overview of symbiotic and pathogenic interactions at the fungi-plant interface under environmental constraints.Frontiers in fungal biology · 2024Review
- Identification of biochemical indices for brown spot (Bipolaris oryzae) disease resistance in rice mutants and hybrids.PloS one · 2024Article
- Endophytic bacteria with allelopathic potential regulate gene expression and metabolite production in hostFrontiers in plant science · 2024Article
- The Application of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi as Microbial Biostimulant, Sustainable Approaches in Modern Agriculture.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Symbiotic bacteria, immune-like sentinel cells, and the response to pathogens in a social amoeba.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
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Abstract
Fungal symbionts have been found associated with every plant studied in natural ecosystem, where they colonize and reside entirely in the internal tissues of their host plant or partially. Fungal endophytes can express/form a range of different lifestyle/relationships with different host including symbiotic, mutualistic, commensalistic and parasitic in response to host genotype and environmental factors. In mutualistic association fungal endophyte can enhance growth, increase reproductive success and confer biotic and abiotic stress tolerance to its host plant. Since abiotic stress such as, drought, high soil salinity, heat, cold, oxidative stress, heavy metal toxicity is the common adverse environmental conditions that affect and limit crop productivity worldwide. It may be a promising alternative strategy to exploit fungal endophytes to overcome the limitations to crop production brought by abiotic stress. There is increasing interest in developing the potential biotechnological applications of fungal endophytes for improving plant stress tolerance and sustainable production of food crops. Here we have described the fungal symbioses, fungal symbionts and their role in abiotic stress tolerance. A putative mechanism of stress tolerance by symbionts has also been covered.
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