ENDOPHYTIC FUNGI AND ITS ROLE IN PLANT LIFE CYCLE

Life Sciences (Botany)

Endophytes are group of microbes which are associated with plants and play very important role in defense mechanism and production of secondary metabolites. This group generally contains bacteria and fungi. Fungal endophytes are more important than bacterial once because of their larger role in plant metabolism. They have been isolated from large number of plant families all over the world. Reports are available in the literatures related to the production of large number of useful compounds in plants by endophytic fungi. Some researchers have even pointed out that the some medicinal chemicals produced by plants are infects produced by the fungal endophytes of that plant. They also play important role in plant defense mechanism by producing some toxic substance which hampers the growth of pathogens. Therefore this group needs to be discussed in detail to know about its nature and its role in plants life cycle

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