Heavy metal contamination in soils can influence plants and animals, often leading to
toxicosis. Heavy metals can impact various biochemical processes in plants, including …

The pollution of soil, water, and air by potentially toxic trace elements poses risks to
environmental and human health. For this reason, many chemical, physical, and biological …

Research on fungal endophytes has demonstrated the ability to improve crop performance
and protect host plants against diverse biotic and abiotic stresses. Yet, despite the …

Soils strongly enriched in arsenic in historical mining sites pose the environmental risk.
Phytostabilization is a reasonable method for their remediation. A suitability of red fescue …

To determine whether infection by a fungal endophyte of the genus Epichloë has a
modifying influence on pathogenic fungal stress, endophyte-infected (E+) and endophyte …

The Epichloë fungal endophytes that inhabit grasses have potentially large-scale
consequences for macro-and micro-organisms and food chains in agriculture. Over 40 years …

Festuca rubra plants maintain associations with the vertically transmitted fungal endophyte
Epichloë festucae. A high prevalence of infected host plants in semiarid grasslands …

Seeds commonly harbour diverse bacterial communities that can enhance the fitness of
future plants. The bacterial microbiota associated with mother plant's foliar tissues is one of …

Wild barley (Hordeum brevisubulatum) is a grass that inhabits alkalized meadows in
northern China. An asexual Epichloë bromicola endophyte was detected in seeds and leaf …

The uptake of As by various plants growing in highly enriched sites was examined in order
to identify potential As accumulators and to assess the risk associated with As presence in …