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The role of endophytic fungi in combating abiotic stress on tomato

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Last updated: 23 Dec 2024

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Agricultural Microbiology
Biocontrol
Fungi
Global change and conservation ecology
Microbial Ecology
Symbiosis

Abstract

Environmental stress to plants is more detrimental than biotic stress. Abiotic stresses, such as drought, salinity, extreme temperatures, heavy metal toxicity, and oxidative stress, are serious threats to agriculture and lead to deterioration of the environment. Abiotic stress leads to a series of morphological, physiological, biochemical, and molecular changes that have a harmful effect on plant growth and productivity. Recently endophytic fungi (EF) are gaining attention due to the numerous benefits gained by the host plant and reducing the application of chemicals in agriculture, thus providing advantages to human health and the environment. Indeed, microbe's ability to confer plant stress resistance may open a new avenue for alleviating the adverse effect of global climate change on agricultural production. The ability of endophytes recovered from grasses were applied to confer drought, high temperature and high salinity to genetically distant plants such as tomato. The concept that fungal endophytes adapt to stress in a habitat-specific manner has been confirmed with different fungal and plant species and environmental stresses. In this review, we have tried to comprehend different roles of endophytes in combating abiotic stress on tomato.

DOI

10.21608/mb.2021.91779.1037

Keywords

Endophytic fungi, abiotic stress, drought, salinity, STDF

Authors

First Name

Fatma

Last Name

Abo Nouh

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia 41522, Egypt.

Email

fatma.nouh@science.suez.edu.eg

City

Arish

Orcid

0000-0002-2538-8422

First Name

Abdelghafar

Last Name

Abu-Elsaoud

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia 41522, Egypt.

Email

abuelsaoud@science.suez.canal.eg

City

Ismailia

Orcid

0000-0002-6269-3418

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Abdel-Azeem

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia 41522, Egypt.

Email

zemo3000@yahoo.com

City

Ismailia

Orcid

0000-0003-2897-3966

Volume

6

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

24927

Issue Date

2021-06-01

Receive Date

2021-08-20

Publish Date

2021-08-31

Page Start

35

Page End

48

Print ISSN

2357-0326

Online ISSN

2357-0334

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https://mb.journals.ekb.eg/article_192162.html

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5

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Reviews

Type Code

504

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Microbial Biosystems

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https://mb.journals.ekb.eg/

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The role of endophytic fungi in combating abiotic stress on tomato

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Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023