Endophytes of Forest Trees
Subtitle: Biology and Applications
By: edited by Anna Maria Pirttilä, A. Carolin Frank
Contributors: Frank, A. Carolin; SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: Forestry Sciences -- 80
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media B.V.; Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9789400715981; 9789400715998
Subjects: Microbial ecology; Life sciences; Biodiversity; Forests and forestry; Biochemistry; Trees
Description: "Found in every plant species, the diversity of endophytic micro-organisms can be extremely high within different plant organs and tissue types. In trees, their ecological roles with respect to host tree can vary from latent pathogens or saprophytes to neutral commensalists and mutualists. Given their high diversity, and their bio-active nature, endophytes are currently being associated with a role in tree health against insect herbivores and fungal pathogens, as well as improving tree properties in phytoremediation. Meanwhile there is increasing interest in the potential of some tree endophytes as new sources of drug compounds"--P.4 of cover.