Restricts Sugar Loss to a Colonizing Strain by Downregulating and and Upregulation of and in the Roots.

Phosphate (Pi) availability has a strong influence on the symbiotic interaction between and a recently described root-colonizing beneficial strain. When transferred to media with insoluble Ca(PO) as a sole Pi source, seedlings died after 10 days. grew on the medium containing Ca(PO) and the fungus did colonize in roots, stems, and shoots of the host.

An Endophytic Strain Promotes Growth of Its Hosts and Defends Against Pathogen Attack.

Plants host numerous endophytic microbes which promote plant performance, in particular under stress. A new endophytic fungus was isolated from the leaves of a deciduous wood tree Morphological inspection and multilocus phylogeny identified the fungus as a new strain. If applied to and , it mainly colonizes their roots and strongly promotes initial growth of the plants on soil.