Endophytic fungi: Unravelling plant-endophyte interaction and the multifaceted role of fungal endophytes in stress amelioration

S Waqar, AA Bhat, AA Khan - Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
Endophytic fungi colonize interior plant tissue and mostly form mutualistic associations with
their host plant. Plant-endophyte interaction is a complex mechanism and is currently a …

Response of plant diversity and soil microbial diversity to warming and increased precipitation in alpine grasslands on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau–A review

B Niu, G Fu - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Plant diversity and soil microbial diversity are closely related, and they maintain the health
and stability of terrestrial ecosystems. As a hotspot region of global biodiversity research …

Acceleration of climate warming and plant dynamics in Antarctica

N Cannone, F Malfasi, SE Favero-Longo, P Convey… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
The strong air temperature warming between the 1950s and 2016 in the Antarctic Peninsula
region 1 exceeded the global average warming 2, 3 with evident impacts on terrestrial …

Fungal Endophytes Exert Positive Effects on Colobanthus quitensis Under Water Stress but Neutral Under a Projected Climate Change Scenario in Antarctica

R Hereme, S Morales-Navarro, G Ballesteros… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Functional symbiosis is considered one of the successful mechanisms by which plants that
inhabit extreme environment improve their ability to tolerate different types of stress. One of …

Natural holobiome engineering by using native extreme microbiome to counteract the climate change effects

R Rodriguez, P Durán - Frontiers in bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In the current scenario of climate change, the future of agriculture is uncertain. Climate
change and climate-related disasters have a direct impact on biotic and abiotic factors that …

Antarctic root endophytes improve physiological performance and yield in crops under salt stress by enhanced energy production and Na+ sequestration

MA Molina-Montenegro, IS Acuña-Rodríguez… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Climatic change is pointed as one of the major challenges for global food security. Based on
current models of climate change, reduction in precipitations and in turn, increase in the soil …

Biodiversity and Bioprospecting of Fungal Endophytes from the Antarctic Plant Colobanthus quitensis

L Bertini, M Perazzolli, S Proietti, G Capaldi… - Journal of Fungi, 2022 - mdpi.com
Microorganisms from extreme environments are considered as a new and valuable reservoir
of bioactive molecules of biotechnological interest and are also utilized as tools for …

Hardening blueberry plants to face drought and cold events by the application of fungal endophytes

IS Acuña-Rodríguez, GI Ballesteros, C Atala… - Agronomy, 2022 - mdpi.com
Harsh environmental conditions derived from current climate change trends are among the
main challenges for agricultural production worldwide. In the Mediterranean climatic region …

Decreasing brown bear (Ursus arctos) habitat due to climate change in Central Asia and the Asian Highlands

J Su, A Aryal, IM Hegab, UB Shrestha… - Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Around the world, climate change has impacted many species. In this study, we used
bioclimatic variables and biophysical layers of Central Asia and the Asian Highlands …

Antarctic extremophiles: biotechnological alternative to crop productivity in saline soils

IS Acuña-Rodríguez, H Hansen… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Salinization of soils is one of the main sources of soil degradation worldwide, particularly in
arid and semiarid ecosystems. High salinity results in osmotic stress and it can negatively …