Desert Plant-Fungal Endophytic Association: The Beneficial Aspects to their Hosts

Author: Abeer H. Ali*, Usama Radwan* , Soad El-Zayat* and Magdi A. El-Sayed*,**

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Abstract

Dry environments have plants with special adaptations enable them to live on nutrient poor soils, in high temperature and with a scarcity of water, one of the most important features of these plants are the ability to establish symbiosis relation with different microorganisms. It is very important to study and take advantage of the mechanisms of the phenomenon of plant-microbes interaction to make a worldwide mutation in the biotechnological potential of efficient partnerships for agriculture and a range of applications. Desert plants could survive in extreme conditions via microbial association. Fungal endophytes afford special adaptation for these plants and improve their performance and resistance against biotic and abiotic stresses through production of bioactive compounds which certainly increase the adaptability of both endophytic fungi and their host plants. Although little studies investigate desert plants-fungal endophyte association but there is a great number of endophytic f

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Desert Plant-Fungal Endophytic,

Conclusion

Endophytic fungi isolated from desert plants play a key front role in the future biotechnological challenge. Our review tried to highlight desert plant-fungal endopytes interaction that conifer these plants to adapt to the extreme arid desert conditions. These factors can possibly affect the endophytic fungi population structure and distribution, as well as the benefits of these endophytes to their host desert plants, also the desert harsh conditions can encourage the production of bioactive compounds. In addition, the previous studies proved that there are many types of beneficial interactions between endophytic fungi and their desert host plants. For example: (1) growth enhancement of host desert plants, (2) resistance promotion of the desert host plants to biotic and abiotic stresses, (3) production of secondary metabolites, including bioactive compounds that could be used in many fields as medicine, industry and agriculture, and (4) antimicrobial agents that could be used as bio-co

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Abeer H. Ali, Usama Radwan , Soad El-Zayat and Magdi A. El-Sayed, (2018). Desert Plant-Fungal Endophytic Association: The Beneficial Aspects to their Hosts Biological Forum – An International Journal 10(1): 138-145.