Publications

ecological implications of anti-pathogen effects of tropical fungal endophytes and mycorrhizae.	we discuss studies of foliar endophytic fungi (fef) and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (amf) associated with theobroma cacao in panama. direct, experimentally controlled comparisons of endophyte free (e-) and endophyte containing (e+) plant tissues in t. cacao show that foliar endophytes (fef) that commonly occur in healthy host leaves enhance host defenses against foliar damage due to the pathogen (phytophthora palmivora). similarly, root inoculations with commonly occurring amf also reduce folia ...	2007	17503581
fungal endophytes limit pathogen damage in a tropical tree.	every plant species examined to date harbors endophytic fungi within its asymptomatic aerial tissues, such that endophytes represent a ubiquitous, yet cryptic, component of terrestrial plant communities. fungal endophytes associated with leaves of woody angiosperms are especially diverse; yet, fundamental aspects of their interactions with hosts are unknown. in contrast to the relatively species-poor endophytes that are vertically transmitted and act as defensive mutualists of some temperate gra ...	2003	14671327