Sentences with word «endophyte»

I did my research in the lab of Bud Stamen, on the effect of endophytes on plant stress.

Rolling a mycobiome down a hill: endophytes in the Taiwanese Cloud Forest — Daniel Thomas — bioRxiv

Plant, root, and soil microbiome Characterizing endophytic competence and plant growth promotion of bacterial endophytes inhabiting the seed endosphere of Rice — Denver I. Walitang — BMC Microbiology

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.

In this study, the researchers looked at the ability of young poplar trees to tolerate drought conditions over a month - long period, with and without the help of added microbes, called endophytes, bacteria that live inside a plant without causing disease.

«Every time we bring samples from these old turf areas in Europe, usually they're loaded with endophytes,» he said.

Endophyte genomes undergo CpG methylation, while prokaryotic genomes do not, making it easy to sequence either of these along with the particular plant genome (s) of interest.

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

«If we can reduce water usage on poplar - tree plantations by adding naturally occurring endophytes, then that could provide huge economic and environmental benefits.»

Rout's fascination with bacterial endophytes continues; she is currently exploring them from a genetic perspective to better understand the complex communication between the microbiome and the plant.

By isolating five bacterial strains of endophytes found inside S. halepense rhizomes (subterranean stems used for storage and vegetative reproduction) and growing them in the lab in different mixtures of substrates, the authors determined that these microbes were able to fix and mobilize nitrogen, phosphorus, and iron.

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

Published in this month's Biology Letters, «Ungulate saliva inhibits a grass - endophyte mutualism» shows that moose and reindeer saliva, when applied to red fescue grass (which hosts a fungus called epichloë festucae that produces the toxin ergovaline) results in slower fungus growth and less toxicity.

Dissertation: The influence of intraspecific variation in host plants on arthropod and fungal endophyte communities — Joshua G. Harrison — University of Nevada

Scientist, Endophyte Mycology, Forage Improvement Section, AgResearch Limited, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Particularly, P. fluorescens strains are common inhabitants of the plant rhizosphere and some strains actively colonize the internal plant tissues, living as endophytes (4), where they play diverse beneficial activities.

In plants, the microbes that live in their leaves, stems, and roots, are called endophytes, and «good» fungi make up an important part of this consortium.

Subsequent literature searches led to the discovery that sugar cane, an agriculturally important crop, is a nitrogen fixer that contains bacterial endophytes, and Rout became curious if the microbes she and her colleague Tom Chrzanowski (The University of Texas Arlington) discovered in invasive Sorghum might be providing similar benefits to this invasive plant.

According to Bailey, this approach can also be used to target genomes of endophytes (i.e., fungi that live in plants) and prokaryotic parasites in plant DNA samples.

Leaves without the endophytes were three times more likely to die.

In the tropical forests of Panama, cacao plants are normally saturated with a diverse mix of seemingly harmless fungi, or endophytes.

«Endophytes are helping plants make more roots, so they have more surface area to hang onto water and survive the stress of drought longer,» Khan said.

«Using these endophytes in agricultural settings holds a lot of promise for growers and farmers.»

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.

In fact, some of our antibiotics and cancer drugs derive from these endophytes.

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.