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Potential Role of Endophytes in Weeds and Herbicide Tolerance in Plants

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Endophytes are a group of microorganisms that inhabit in the plants’ living tissues without affecting them. Endophytes contribute to the survival of the host by enhancing its growth, increasing resistance to biotic (pathogens, pests) and abiotic stresses (heat, salinity, drought, nutrient supply), and protecting the host by the attack of insect/herbivore, etc. They found in almost every desirable and undesirable plant. A weed is any undesirable plant that is distributed evenly, affects the growth of the crop and thereby contributes to the major loss in agriculture. Several measures have been implemented for the management of the weed, among which the herbicide practices have proved to be a promising weapon. However, the surplus use of herbicide gives rise to the development of herbicide tolerance in weed and plants. Earlier it was believed that it’s the plants’ metabolic property that degrades the herbicide and induces the tolerance. Nevertheless, recent studies stated the crucial endophytes or vicinity free-living microbes’ role to induce herbicide tolerance in plants.

In the present review, we highlighted the endophyte and plant interactions (both desirable and weeds) in contributing herbicide degradation and tolerance.

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The authors are thankful to the Department of Science and Technology-Science and Engineering Research Board (DST-SERB), New Delhi, India, for providing the financial assistance in the form of JRF fellowship to one of the author KL. The authors are thankful to the Head of Department of Microbiology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, MS, India, for providing the necessary facility to conduct the DST-SERB project SERB/F/8336/2019-2020.

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Lonkar, K., Bodade, R. (2021). Potential Role of Endophytes in Weeds and Herbicide Tolerance in Plants. In: Mohamed, H.I., El-Beltagi, H.ED.S., Abd-Elsalam, K.A. (eds) Plant Growth-Promoting Microbes for Sustainable Biotic and Abiotic Stress Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66587-6_9

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