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Cultivation-Based Studies of Endophytic Fungi in Plants

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Endophytic Microbes: Isolation, Identification, and Bioactive Potentials

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Abstract

Fungal endophytes live within plants without any symptoms and confer several advantages to the host that may be exploited for use in agriculture and medicine. Studies of the species population dynamics, diversity, and relationship of endophytic fungi and host plants have gained popularity in recent decades. Investigations on the species ecology and diversity of fungal endophytes have been mainly approached by cultivation-based methods. This method is effective, revealing a great number of endophytic fungal species richness and diversity from host plants. The current chapter explores the cultivation-based technique as one of the ways of studying endophytic fungi from plant tissues.

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  1. University of Eldoret, Eldoret, Kenya

    Lizzy A. Mwamburi

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  1. Department of Life Sciences, Sri Sathya Sai University for Human ExcellenceNavanihal, Kamalapura, Kalaburagi, Karnataka, India

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  2. C.G. Bhakta Institute of Biotechnology, Uka Tarsadia University, Surat, Gujarat, India

    Natarajan Amaresan

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    Mitesh Kumar Dwivedi

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Mwamburi, L.A. (2023). Cultivation-Based Studies of Endophytic Fungi in Plants. In: Sankaranarayanan, A., Amaresan, N., Dwivedi, M.K. (eds) Endophytic Microbes: Isolation, Identification, and Bioactive Potentials. Springer Protocols Handbooks. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2827-0_15

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