Epichloë Endophyte-Promoted Seed Pathogen Increases Host Grass Resistance Against Insect Herbivory

• Main Authors: Saikkonen Kari, Zabalgogeazcoa Iñigo, Vázquez de Aldana Beatriz R., Helander Marjo, Laihonen Miika, Fuchs Benjamin
• Other Authors: biodiversiteettiyksikkö, Biodiversity unit, ekologia ja evoluutiobiologia, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, biodiversiteetti- ja ympäristönäytepankki, Biodiversiteetti- ja ympäristönäytepankki, 2606402, 2606017, 2606010
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Research Foundation 2022
• Subjects: Kevo; Northern Finland; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://www.utupub.fi/handle/10024/163680; https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2021.786619/full

Plants host taxonomically and functionally complex communities of microbes. However, ecological studies on plant–microbe interactions rarely address the role of multiple co-occurring plant-associated microbes. Here, we contend that plant-associated microbes interact with each other and can have join...