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What does endophyte mean?

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  1. Any organism (generally a bacterium, fungus or alga) that lives inside a plant
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This second stage involves inoculating seedlings of endophyte-free plants with the candidate endophyte and with reference endophytes and then comparing the level of different metabolites produced.
Phomodione, an usnic acid derivative, was isolated from culture broth of a Phoma species, discovered as an endophyte on a Guinea plant.
This exercise, involving close cooperation between the PVR Office and endophyte experts, has now been completed.
The testing of fungal endophyte varieties has undergone a major reorganization and testing under the new procedure has recently concluded for the first group of candidate varieties.
It is a type of fungus called an endophyte that lives inside the kernels of corn plants, neither harming nor benefiting its host.
Since D. vaccinii occurs as an endophyte in apparently healthy vines, only vines known to be disease-free should be imported for cultivation.

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