All plants in natural ecosystems appear to be symbiotic with fungal endophytes. This highly
diverse group of fungi can have profound impacts on plant communities through increasing …

Terrestrial plants including forest trees are generally known to live in close association with
microbial organisms. The inherent features of this close association can be commensalism …

Every plant species examined to date harbors endophytic fungi within its asymptomatic
aerial tissues, such that endophytes represent a ubiquitous, yet cryptic, component of …

Grasslands, in particular managed pastures and rangelands, are widespread, covering
approximately 40%(52 million km²) of the Earth's land surface. They are dominated by …

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

▪ Abstract Grasses (family Poaceae) and fungi of the family Clavicipitaceae have a long
history of symbiosis ranging in a continuum from mutualisms to antagonisms. This …

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 …

All fungi invading plant foliage have an asymptomatic period in their life cycle that varies
from an imperceptibly short period (eg pathogens) to a lifetime (eg Neotyphodium …

Throughout the natural world, organisms have responded to predators, inadequate
resources, or inclement conditions by forming ongoing mutually beneficial partnerships--or …

We consider how fungi that form symbiotic associations with plants interact with insect
herbivores attacking the same plants. Both endophytes and mycorrhizae have significant …