ReviewEnvironmental microbiology2020
The diversity and distribution of endophytes across biomes, plant phylogeny and host tissues: how far have we come and where do we go from here?
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- Diversity of Endophytic Fungi in Theobroma grandiflorum and their Potential for Biological Control of Witches' Broom Disease and Promotion of Cupuaçu Seedling Growth in the Amazon.Current microbiology · 2026Article
- Endophyte profiling of tomato leaf curl virus (ToLCV) resistant and susceptible tomato genotypes: Insights into microbial diversity and growth promotion.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Alliances and competitions between nematodes and other micro-organisms occurring in the soil biosphere: a review.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Review
- Hidden Helpers: Exploring Plant Growth-Promoting Activities of Endophytes and their Functional Diversity Across Different Organs of Saffron crocus (Crocus sativus L.).Current microbiology · 2025Article
- Microbial Allies in the Olive Canopy: Endophyte Composition, Drivers, and their Role in Plant Protection.Microbial ecology · 2025Review
- Seasonal Turnover and Functional Structure of the Foliar Mycobiota in a Gondwanan Temperate Forest Keystone Tree.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Endophytic Diversity in Sicilian Olive Trees: Identifying Optimal Conditions for a Functional Microbial Collection.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- Evaluation of cellulase production by endophytic fungi isolated from young and mature leaves of medicinal plants using maize cob substrate.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
The interiors of plants are colonized by diverse microorganisms that are referred to as endophytes. Endophytes have received much attention over the past few decades, yet many questions remain unanswered regarding patterns in their biodiversity at local to global scales. To characterize research effort to date, we synthesized results from ~600 published studies. Our survey revealed a global research interest and highlighted several gaps in knowledge. For instance, of the 17 biomes encompassed by our survey, 7 were understudied and together composed only 7% of the studies that we considered. We found that fungal endophyte diversity has been characterized in at least one host from 30% of embryophyte families, while bacterial endophytes have been surveyed in hosts from only 10.5% of families. We complimented our survey with a vote counting procedure to determine endophyte richness patterns among plant tissue types. We found that variation in endophyte assemblages in above-ground tissues varied with host growth habit. Stems were the richest tissue in woody plants, whereas roots were the richest tissue in graminoids. For forbs, we found no consistent differences in relative tissue richness among studies. We propose future directions to fill the gaps in knowledge we uncovered and inspire further research.
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