Sentences with phrase «beneficial endophytes»

But when plants are sprayed with fungicides in a greenhouse, it doesn't just kill the fungal diseases, it also kills the beneficial endophytes.

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That finding raises prospects for eco-sensitive disease control — spraying cacao trees with beneficial fungi, for instance, or planting them alongside endophyte donor plants.

They took leaves from a closely related wild that plant was healthy and contained a typical mix of endophytes, blended them into a smoothie and sprayed the mixture onto the leaves of P. kaalaensis to see if beneficial microbes could be transplanted from one species to another.