ReviewPlant molecular biology2016
Endophytic Epichloë species and their grass hosts: from evolution to applications.
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- Getting by With a Little Help From Fungal Friends: Seed-Associated Endophytes Contribute to Seed Defense Against Fungal Pathogens in Keystone Tropical Trees.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
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- Chemical Signaling and Metabolomic Crosstalk in Endophytic Fungi-Medicinal Plant Symbioses for Natural Product Discovery and Sustainable Bioproduction.Metabolites · 2026Review
- Cross-talk within plant niches: endophytic and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for sustainable crop production.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2026Review
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- Endophyte-mediated pest resistance: mechanisms, evidence gaps, and translational opportunities.Frontiers in microbiomes · 2026Review
- Genera of phytopathogenic fungi known from culture: 1-379.Studies in mycology · 2025Article
- Metabolic Regulation and Saline-Alkali Stress Response in Novel Symbionts ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- An Alternative Self-Splicing Intron Lifecycle Revealed by Dynamic Intron Turnover in Epichloë Endophyte Mitochondrial Genomes.Molecular biology and evolution · 2025Article
- Comparative physiological study of endophyte-infected and non-infected genotypes of Lolium perenne under drought stress.BMC plant biology · 2025Article
- Induced Defense in Ryegrass-Epichloë Symbiosis AgainstJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Unveiling an asymmetric plant-fungal symbiosis: morphological, cytogenetic, and molecular characterization of a haploidIMA fungus · 2025Article
- Reduced seed viability in exchange for transgenerational plant protection in an endophyte-symbiotic grass: does the defensive mutualism concept pass the fitness test?Annals of botany · 2024Article
- A gene regulating ergot alkaloid biosynthesis inApplied and environmental microbiology · 2024Article
- The Impact of AbovegroundMicroorganisms · 2024Article
- Alternative host shapes transmission and life-history trait correlations in a multi-host plant pathogen.Evolutionary applications · 2024Article
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- Endophytic Fungus Negatively Affects Salt Tolerance of Tall Fescue.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Root biomass and cumulative yield increase with mowing height in Festuca pratensis irrespective of Epichloë symbiosis.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
The closely linked fitness of the Epichloë symbiont and the host grass is presumed to align the coevolution of the species towards specialization and mutually beneficial cooperation. Ecological observations demonstrating that Epichloë-grass symbioses can modulate grassland ecosystems via both above- and belowground ecosystem processes support this. In many cases the detected ecological importance of Epichloë species is directly or indirectly linked to defensive mutualism attributable to alkaloids of fungal-origin. Now, modern genetic and molecular techniques enable the precise studies on evolutionary origin of endophytic Epichloë species, their coevolution with host grasses and identification the genetic variation that explains phenotypic diversity in ecologically relevant characteristics of Epichloë-grass associations. Here we briefly review the most recent findings in these areas of research using the present knowledge of the genetic variation that explains the biosynthetic pathways driving the diversity of alkaloids produced by the endophyte. These findings underscore the importance of genetic interplay between the fungus and the host in shaping their coevolution and ecological role in both natural grass ecosystems, and in the agricultural arena.
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