TY - JOUR
T1 - Fungal endophytes of crop plants
T2 - diversity, stress tolerance and biocontrol potential
AU - Malarvizhi, K.
AU - Murali, T. S.
AU - Kumaresan, V.
N1 - Funding Information:
VK thanks the Director and Head of the Department of Botany, KMGIPSR, Puducherry for providing facilities and encouragement. TSM thanks Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Technology Information Forecasting Assessment Council—Centre of Relevance and Excellence in Pharmacogenomics (TIFAC-CORE), DBT BUILDER – Interdisciplinary Life Science Programme for Advance Research and Education (DB-ILSPARE), and Fund for Improvement of S & T Infrastructure in Universities and Higher Educational Institutions (DST-FIST) programs for the support.
Funding Information:
VK thanks the Director and Head of the Department of Botany, KMGIPSR, Puducherry for providing facilities and encouragement. TSM thanks Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Technology Information Forecasting Assessment Council—Centre of Relevance and Excellence in Pharmacogenomics (TIFAC-CORE), DBT BUILDER – Interdisciplinary Life Science Programme for Advance Research and Education (DB-ILSPARE), and Fund for Improvement of S & T Infrastructure in Universities and Higher Educational Institutions (DST-FIST) programs for the support.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s).
PY - 2023/12
Y1 - 2023/12
N2 - Background: There is a growing perception among the scientific community to utilize endophytes in improving crop productivity. The presence of these microorganisms offers benefits to host plants that include enhanced resistance to various insect pests, increased fitness and improved tolerance to abiotic stresses including heavy metal pollutants and higher salinity, albeit with no harm to the environment. Main body: Since reports indicated that fungal endophytes afford protection to cereal crops from a wide variety of pathogenic microbes, in this short review, the diversity and potential of fungal endophytes of some major crop plants including rice, wheat, maize and sugarcane were discussed. Conclusion: Considering the global challenges caused by food security, there is an immediate need to look at effective and environmental friendly solutions to increase crop productivity and endophytes present a solution due to their long-term symbiotic association with their hosts. However, it remains critical to understand their functional significance and overall role in improving the host fitness in natural environments.
AB - Background: There is a growing perception among the scientific community to utilize endophytes in improving crop productivity. The presence of these microorganisms offers benefits to host plants that include enhanced resistance to various insect pests, increased fitness and improved tolerance to abiotic stresses including heavy metal pollutants and higher salinity, albeit with no harm to the environment. Main body: Since reports indicated that fungal endophytes afford protection to cereal crops from a wide variety of pathogenic microbes, in this short review, the diversity and potential of fungal endophytes of some major crop plants including rice, wheat, maize and sugarcane were discussed. Conclusion: Considering the global challenges caused by food security, there is an immediate need to look at effective and environmental friendly solutions to increase crop productivity and endophytes present a solution due to their long-term symbiotic association with their hosts. However, it remains critical to understand their functional significance and overall role in improving the host fitness in natural environments.
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U2 - 10.1186/s41938-023-00711-1
DO - 10.1186/s41938-023-00711-1
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85162690315
SN - 1110-1768
VL - 33
JO - Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control
JF - Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control
IS - 1
M1 - 67
ER -
