Plant fungal endophytes are known to influence the ecology and fitness of host plants while enhancing their resistance against biotic and abiotic stress conditions. Fungal endophytes, amidst their other uses in agriculture, ...

Fungal endophytes that reside symbiotically inside plant tissues are ubiquitous in nature and are known for their multifaceted functional roles against biotic and abiotic stresses in plants, thus recognized as a valuable ...

Plants possess the ability to distinguish between beneficial and harmful organisms entering the plant from the external environment, and respond accordingly. Effectors are specific elicitor proteins secreted by pathogenic ...

Colonization of aerial grass tissues by seed-transmitted Epichloëendo-symbionts initially occurs through ramification of hyphal tips between cells of the host shoot apical meristem (SAM). Uniquely, when hyphae in the SAM ...

Epichloëfestucae is an agronomically-important endophytic fungus that grows symbiotically within the intercellular spaces of temperate grass species such as Loliumperenne and L. arundinaceum. Colonization of host seedlings ...

Fungal growth is influenced by many factors, and we have recently confirmed that mechanical signals are particularly important in inducing intercalary growth in the grass symbiont, Epichloëfestucae. Hyphae growing in culture ...