Evolution of Fungal Endophytes and Their Functional Transitions Between Endophytism and Saprotrophism

• Main Author: Chen, Ko-Hsuan
• Other Authors: Lutzoni, Francois
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Ecology; Botany; Dicranum; endophytes; fungi; microbiome; moss; transcriptome; Alfaro; Arctic; Davey; Rodriguez; Climate change
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10161/16285

The kingdom Fungi is one of the major groups of the plant microbiome(Hardoim et al., 2015; Vandenkoornhuyse et al., 2015; Peay et al., 2016). Of the various plant-fungus interactions, mycorrhizal fungi that form mutualistic associations with host plants are the best studied symbiotic system(Bonfante...