The Hidden World within Plants: Ecological and Evolutionary Considerations for Defining Functioning of Microbial Endophytes

By Pablo R Hardoim, L. V. van Overbeek, G. Berg, A. Pirttilä, S. Compant, A. Campisano, M. Döring, A. Sessitsch. Microbiology and Molecular Reviews, 2015

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SUMMARY All plants are inhabited internally by diverse microbial communities comprising bacterial, archaeal, fungal, and protistic taxa. These microorganisms showing endophytic lifestyles play crucial roles in plant development, growth, fitness, and diversification. The increasing awareness of and information on endophytes provide insight into the complexity of the plant microbiome. The nature of plant-endophyte interactions ranges from mutualism to pathogenicity. This depends on a set of abiotic and biotic factors, including the genotypes of plants and microbes, environmental conditions, and the dynamic network of interactions within the plant biome. In this review, we address the concept of endophytism, considering the latest insights into evolution, plant ecosystem functioning, and multipartite interactions.

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

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Bacterial endophytes from rice cut grass (Leersia oryzoides L.) increase growth, promote root gravitropic response, stimulate root hair formation, and protect rice seedlings from disease (2017, positive): “Bacterial endophytes have been reported from rice and several other crops in the recent past (Kaga et al. 2009; Hardoim et al. 2012, 2015; Gond et al. 2015a; Herrera et al. 2016).”
Morphological approaches in studying fungi: collection, examination, isolation, sporulation and preservation (2020, background): “Otherwise, plant enzymes and toxins can deactivate or destroy the endophytic fungi (Hardoim et al. 2015, Hyde et al. 2019).”
Endophytic fungi as biocontrol agents: elucidating mechanisms in disease suppression (2018, background): “(i) What is the colonisation strategy and pattern of the potential BCA (Rodriguez et al. 2009; Hardoim et al. 2015; Card et al. 2016)?”
Transient leaf endophytes are the most active fungi in 1-year-old beech leaf litter (2017, background): “…endophytic fungi with plant hosts (for reviews see Hyde and Soytong 2008; Porras-Alfaro and Bayman 2011; Debbab et al. 2012; Hamilton et al. 2012; Hardoim et al. 2015; Berg et al. 2016; Vacher et al. 2016) are therefore probably mostly ascribable to fungal individuals and not to fungal…”
Forest microbiome: diversity, complexity and dynamics. (2016, background): “…from entering cells, and many endophytes and epiphytes survive by scavenging on quantitatively minor substrates, including volatile organic compounds, or methylated compounds, which are frequently utilised in cometabolism (Redford et al. 2010; Vorholt 2012; Hardoim et al. 2015; Lebeis 2015).”
Growth enhancement and drought tolerance of hybrid poplar upon inoculation with endophyte consortia (2016, background): “Among these plantassociated microbes, the role of endophytes (bacteria or fungi living inside plants) in stimulating plant growth and nutrition, in addition to increasing stress tolerance of their host plants is gaining more attention [13],[14],[15] and [16].”
Assembly of seed-associated microbial communities within and across successive plant generations (2017, background): “Although the contributions of seed-associated microorganisms to the composition of the plant microbiota is mostly unknown, there are observations of seedassociated microorganisms that are conserved across multiple plant generations (Johnston-Monje and Raizada 2011; Hardoim et al. 2015).”