How to Use endophyte in a Sentence

endophyte

noun
  • But not all endophytes are safe.
    — Anna Marija Helt, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Indeed, the line between endophyte and pathogen is blurry.
    — Anna Marija Helt, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2025
  • And Doty notes that there are regulations on endophyte use.
    — Anna Marija Helt, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2025
  • In fact, all plants harbor endophytes in the form of bacteria, fungi, and other microbes.
    — Anna Marija Helt, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2025
  • In the next two years, work from several researchers converged to show that endophytes can be beneficial to plants.
    — Anna Marija Helt, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Her team has also isolated endophytes from sweet potatoes that improve the rooting of poplars, a promising biofuels crop.
    — Anna Marija Helt, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2025
  • An endophyte might not even colonize the target plant—something Rayner noticed nearly a century ago.
    — Anna Marija Helt, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Scientists now know that endophytes indeed migrate from soil but also from above-ground sources, entering via leaves, stalks, and flowers, or inherited via seed.
    — Anna Marija Helt, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The endophytes likely perform this conversion as a mechanism to reduce the the metal’s toxicity to both the plant and themselves.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Despite many compelling findings and goals for endophyte use, the mechanisms governing their interactions with plants remain poorly defined.
    — Anna Marija Helt, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Scientists are also examining endophytes from sources unrelated to the target plant.
    — Anna Marija Helt, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Many endophytes produce compounds that inhibit plant pathogens or are protective antioxidants, for example.
    — Anna Marija Helt, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2025
  • For example, certain grasses contain compounds from endophytes that sicken grazing animals.
    — Anna Marija Helt, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Many of the endophytes Doty has characterized over twenty-five years fix nitrogen and promote growth in lab, greenhouse, and field trials but have a much broader host range than rhizobia, extending from farm lands to forests.
    — Anna Marija Helt, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Through their actions on plants, endophytes might expand what’s considered farmable land, according to a review from a team led by microbial biotechnologist Bita Zaferanloo.
    — Anna Marija Helt, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2025
  • However, rhizobia associate only with legumes and not with other crops, so researchers began investigating the role of other endophytes in the important staple, potatoes.
    — Anna Marija Helt, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Humans have always ingested endophytes given that endophyte–plant cohabitation goes back hundreds of millions of years, and endophytes contribute to our gut microbiome.
    — Anna Marija Helt, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2025
  • These endophytes, which typically aid the plant in functions like hormone production, facilitate biomineralization.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, microbiologist Sharon Doty and collaborators look to endophytes of wild poplars and willows from harsh environments.
    — Anna Marija Helt, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Norway spruce trees accumulate gold nanoparticles by utilizing their resident, symbiotic bacteria, known as endophytes.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Developing real-world endophyte applications is a complicated challenge, but a necessary one given the need for more productive and sustainable agriculture.
    — Anna Marija Helt, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2025
  • For example, phytopathologist Zoulikha Krimi and team inhibited tomato pathogens and improved tomato germination and growth using endophytes from nettles and other wild plants.
    — Anna Marija Helt, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Scientists are similarly investigating endophytes of ancient wheat varieties, which, like corn’s ancestors, are more disease-resistant than modern varieties.
    — Anna Marija Helt, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Agronomist and Nobel Prize nominee Johanna Döbereiner discovered nitrogen-fixing endophytes in non-legume plants in the twentieth century that, like rhizobia, might reduce the need for financially and environmentally costly synthetic fertilizers.
    — Anna Marija Helt, JSTOR Daily, 17 Sep. 2025

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