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Aug 2026
Endophytes Across the Plant Life Cycle: Potential Roles in Plant Protection, Litter Decomposition, and Nutrient Cycling
This review examines how a subset of endophytes helps maintain ecosystem function in living plants, senescent tissues, litter, and associated microbial environments and proposes an open, non-linear ecological continuum for selected endophytes that connects endophytic colonisation, saprotrophic persistence, and potentia...
Yu-Meng Sun, Xing-Bing He, Yong-Hui Lin et al.
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