Can leaf degrading enzymes provide evidence that endophytic fungi becoming saprobes?

By Itthayakorn Promputtha, K. D. Hyde, E. McKenzie, J. Peberdy, Saisamorn Lumyong. Fungal diversity, 2010

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Subfields: Cell Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science

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Endophyte research: going beyond isolation and metabolite documentation (2013, background): “Several recent investigations confirm that some endophyte species are also litter decomposers (Promputtha et al., 2010; Chaverri and Gazis, 2011; Purahong and Hyde, 2011; Sun et al., 2011; Hirose et al., 2013).”
Fungal endophytes: an untapped source of biocatalysts (2012, background): “Such an arsenal of biocatalysts is not unexpected since endophytes (i) infect plant tissues such as leaves, (ii) survive in them and (iii) a few of them continue to survive in senesced leaves as saprotrophs, thus functioning as pioneer litter degraders (Kumaresan and Suryanarayanan 2002; Promputtha ”
Branching out: Towards a trait-based understanding of fungal ecology (2015, methodology): “For instance, recent metabolic surveys of fungi measured enzyme activity using a variety of methods (as e.g. in Mandyam et al. (2010); or in Promputtha et al. (2010)).”
Chitinolytic enzymes from endophytic fungi (2011, background): “…(Suryanarayanan and Murali 2006), entomopathogens (Vega et al. 2008) and strict mutualists (Ganley et al. 2004) survive as endophytes in living plant tissues; it appears that foliar endophytes can continue to survive on fallen leaves by switching to a saprobic phase (Promputtha et al. 2007, 2010).”
The genus Phomopsis: biology, applications, species concepts and names of common phytopathogens (2011, background): “saprobic strains which support the biochemical evidence that endophytes become saprobes at leaf senescence (Promputtha et al. 2010; Dai et al. 2010; Meenavalli et al. 2011).”
Transient leaf endophytes are the most active fungi in 1-year-old beech leaf litter (2017, background): “However, they have long been suspected to be involved in the decomposition of leaf litter (Hudson 1968; Promputtha et al. 2002, 2007, 2010; Suryanarayanan 2013; Saikkonen et al. 2015; Szink et al. 2016; Promputtha et al. 2017).”
Effects of fungal endophytes on grass and non-grass litter decomposition rates (2011, background): “This provides further evidence that fungal endophytes become saprotrophs (Promputtha et al. 2010).”