Chinese yam tubers are nutrient-rich but highly susceptible to mechanical damage during harvest, which facilitates pathogenic fungal infection at wound sites. This study aimed to identify pathogenic fungi from postharvest yam wounds and screen native endophytic bacteria with antifungal activity f...

Endophytic bacteria are underexplored reservoirs of molecular diversity. We compared the intracellular metabolomic fingerprints of three endophytic bacterial isolates from sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum), assigned to Streptomyces sp., Pantoea sp., and Paracoccus sp. Extracts from three independ...

Plant-leaf endophytic fungi mutualism is essential for plants to adapt to adverse environments. Though introgression has been extensively studied in many plants, the underlying effects of introgression on fungi-driven adaptability still remain unanswered. Here, we performed landscape-scale sampli...

Beneficial association with symbiotic fungi helps improve the growth and fitness in most land plants, and shows great potential as biofertilizers in precision agriculture. Here, we demonstrated that a root fungal endophyte, Tinctoporellus species isolate AR8, enabled yield improvement in...

The induced capacity of plant growth-defense trade-offs under biotic stress is increasingly recognized. While many studies mainly focus on plants’ defense activation stage during insect attacks, limited attention has been given to post-stress recovery. Herein, leaves from normal and post-herbivor...

Several entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) species can colonize and establish symbiotic relationships with plants as endophytes, which affects crop growth under elevated carbon dioxide (eCO₂) concentrations. However, how EPF facilitates plants under eCO2 is poorly understood, especially at the transcri...