Sentences with phrase «endophytes in»

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.