Sentences with phrase «as endophytes»
One promising area of study: Funguses that live within the plants, known as endophytes, that appear to make turf grasses more resistant to insects and more heat - tolerant.
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Research at STRI has also shown that, as with humans, microbes stimulate plants» ability to defend themselves and has demonstrated the magnitude and extent of endophyte effects on host genetic expression.
Members of the Helotiales thrive in various ecosystems and cover a broad range of niches, and helotialean fungi have been described as plant pathogens, endophytes, mycorrhizae, fungal parasites, terrestrial saprobes, aquatic saprobes, root symbionts, and wood rot fungi.