Endophytic fungi in forest trees: are they mutualists?

By T. Sieber. 2007

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Subfields: Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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Phylogenic diversity of fungal endophytes in Spanish stands of Pinus halepensis (2011, unknown): “Between 500,000 and 600,000 fungal endophyte species were thought to exist (Schmit and Mueller 2007), and approximately 465,000 of them are not described yet (Sieber 2007).”
FUNGuild: An open annotation tool for parsing fungal community datasets by ecological guild (2016, background): “We suspect that the relatively large proportion of plant pathogens in the wood dataset is due to the fact the treeswould have likely served as hosts to these plant pathogens before and for sometime after they were felled for the experiment (Sieber, 2007).”
Biology of Endophytic Fungi (2012, background): “…have a wide host range and colonize several taxonomically unrelated plant hosts (Pandey et al. 2003, Jeewon et al. 2004, Murali et al. 2006, Sieber 2007, Hyde et al. 2009, Udagaya et al. 2011, Wikee et al. 2011) suggesting that they have developed adaptations to overcome different types of…”
Diversity of endophytic fungi of Taxus globosa (Mexican yew) (2011, background): “Furthermore, the influence of endophytes has been shown in mutualism, decreased herbivory and increased drought resistance (Sieber 2007; Hyde and Soytong 2008).”
Pathogenic Botryosphaeriaceae associated with Mangifera indica in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia (2011, unknown): “Latent pathogens are characterised by asymptomatic infection of the host and disease expression is linked to host stress (Stone et al. 2004; Seiber 2007; Dakin et al. 2009).”
Endophytes vs tree pathogens and pests: can they be used as biological control agents to improve tree health? (2019, background): “Sieber (2007) also found that the colonization of elm bark by Phomopsis velata had significant effects on two beetle pests of bark, Scoltus scolytus and Scolytus multistriatus.”
Fungal endophytes: unique plant inhabitants with great promises (2011, background): “Relatedness of dominant endophytes decreased with decreasing taxonomic relatedness of host plants (Sieber 2007).”
Bioactive secondary metabolites from endophytes and associated marine derived fungi (2011, unknown): “Furthermore, such techniques provide evidence for the presence of distinct host-specific and sometimes even organ-specific fungal distribution patterns as well as the possible existence of host-specific fungal species (Arnold 2007; Sieber 2007; Gao et al. 2008).”
Botryosphaeriaceae as endophytes and latent pathogens of woody plants: diversity, ecology and impact (2007, background): “Following this argument, the interactions between woody plants and Botryosphaeriaceae appear to be more casual, unlike obligate mutualists (Saikkonen et al. 1998; Saikkonen 2007; Sieber 2007).”
Fungal endophytes from higher plants: a prolific source of phytochemicals and other bioactive natural products (2010, background): “…the whole lifetime of the infected plant tissue or for an extended period of time, i.e. until environmental conditions are favorable for the fungus or the ontogenetic state of the host changes to the advantage of the fungus which may then turn pathogenic (Sieber 2007; Rodriguez and Redman 2008).”
Do all trees carry the seeds of their own destruction? PCR reveals numerous wood decay fungi latently present in sapwood of a wide range of angiosperm trees (2010, background): “Endophytes belonging to the Xylariaceae (in the present study E. spinosa, N. serpens, D. concentrica, H. fragiforme and H. fuscum) have been isolated from a diverse array of tree species (Petrini et al. 1995; Sieber 2007), not only from stems and twigs but also from leaves.”
Foliar endophytic fungi from Hevea brasiliensis and their antagonism on Microcyclus ulei (2011, background): “Sieber (2007) stated that tree endophytes are mostly harmless colonizers of the internal parts of healthy plant tissues.”
Refined families of Dothideomycetes: Dothideomycetidae and Pleosporomycetidae (2020, background): “Neohendersonia kickxii has been reported as a specific endophyte of beech twigs in Europe (Danti et al. 2002, Sieber 2007) and from beech bark in North American forests (Griesmer-Zakhar 2013).”
Endophytic fungal communities in woody perennials of three tropical forest types of the Western Ghats, southern India (2011, background): “…et al. 2003; Motohashi et al. 2009), Pestalotiopsis (Jeewon et al. 2004; Tejesvi et al. 2009), Colletotrichum (Lu et al. 2004) and Phomopsis (Murali et al. 2006) have loose host affiliation and colonize geographically and taxonomically separated plant hosts (see Sieber 2007; Sakalidis et al. 2011).”