Editorial: Beneficial effects of fungal endophytes in major agricultural crops
Fecha
2022Versión
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Tipo
Artículo / Artikulua
Versión
Versión publicada / Argitaratu den bertsioa
Identificador del proyecto
AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2021-2023/PID2021-123697OB-I00
Impacto
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10.3389/fpls.2022.1061112
Resumen
Endophytic microorganisms are those that can dwell within plant tissues without any
external sign of infection or other harmful effects on the host plants (Burragoni and Jeon,
2021). In recent decades, the important role that both bacterial and fungal endophytes
play in plant growth and development, as well as in their ability to survive in their
environment, has been identified (Burragoni an ...
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Endophytic microorganisms are those that can dwell within plant tissues without any
external sign of infection or other harmful effects on the host plants (Burragoni and Jeon,
2021). In recent decades, the important role that both bacterial and fungal endophytes
play in plant growth and development, as well as in their ability to survive in their
environment, has been identified (Burragoni and Jeon, 2021). Endophytic fungi can be
found colonizing any plant organ, presenting a very different distribution and diversity
among plants of different species, among plants of the same species, and even among
organs of the same plant (Aamir et al., 2020). In crops, endophytic fungi act through
different beneficial pathways, as biofertilizers promoting plant growth, as biological
control agents of pathogens and pests or as inducers of tolerance under abiotic stresses,
having great importance in the development of new strategies for sustainable agriculture
(Aamir et al., 2020). These benefits for crops have been studied in the papers published in
this Research Topic: promotion of plant growth in tomato (Paradza et al.), cotton (Silva
et al.) and wheat (Asim et al.), increased tolerance under salt stress in tritordeum and
perennial ryegrass (Toghueo et al.), as biological control agents against pathogenic fungi
through antibiosis and mycoparasitism (Silva et al.), or as insecticidal agents through
activation of systemic plant defenses (Paradza et al.; Agbessenou et al.), among others. [--]
Materias
Bioinoculants,
Plant growth promotion,
Abiotic stress tolerance,
Biological control agents,
Brassicaceae
Editor
Frontiers Media
Publicado en
Frontiers in Plant Science, 13:1061112
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra/Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in Applied Biology - IMAB
Versión del editor
Entidades Financiadoras
JP thanks Grants for the Recualification of the Spanish University System for 2021-2023, Public University of Navarra; Recualification Modality; Funded by the European Union –NextGenerationEU. PB is grateful to the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal) for financial support through national funds FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC) to CIMO (UIDB/00690/2020 and UIDP/00690/2020) and SusTEC (LA/P/0007/2020). SS is grateful to Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica, Técnica y de Innovación 2021-2023, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación of Spain, with grant number PID2021-123697OB-I00. PV is grateful to Xunta de Galicia (Spain) for financial support by project IN607A 2021/03. JP and PB are grateful to the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, within the project PRIMA/0002/2018 (INTOMED - Innovative tools to combat crop pests in the Mediterranean) (Horizon 2020).