Sentences with phrase «with 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.

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.

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.

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.

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