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 …

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▪ 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 …

▪ Abstract Ecologists and evolutionary biologists are broadly interested in how the
interactions among organisms influence their abundance, distribution, phenotypes, and …

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

Fungal endophytes are extremely common and highly diverse microorganisms that live
within plant tissues, but usually remain asymptomatic. Endophytes traditionally have been …

▪ Abstract Although predation has a lethal effect on prey, mature terrestrial plants are rarely
killed by herbivores, but herbivory can change plant allelochemistry, cell structure and …

Endophyte-grass symbiosis is generally considered to be a classic example of microbe-
plant symbiosis in which the fitness of the microbial symbiont and its host plant is closely …