Reconsidering the ecological effect of seed endophytes in building plant microbial environments: lessons from a Chinese medicinal plant Panax notoginseng

• Published in: Environmental microbiome Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 87 - 17
• Main Authors: Wen, Yun, Yang, Wei-Xi, Li, Yi-Qian, Lu, Chun-Xi, Hu, Hong-Yan, Guo, Li-Rong, Huang, Shuang-Ye, Pan, Xiao-Xia, Zhu, Shu-Sheng, Yang, Ming-Zhi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 14.07.2025; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Ecological effect; Fungi; Germination; Medicinal plants; Medicine, Botanic; Medicine, Herbal; Microbiota (Symbiotic organisms); Plant-associated microbiota (PAM); Pseudoginseng; Seed endophytes; Soil microbiology; Vertically transferred seed endophytes (sVTEs); ‘Market’ of sVTE; China; Plant-associated microbiota (PAM); Seed endophytes; ‘Market’ of sVTE; Pseudoginseng; Vertically transferred seed endophytes (sVTEs); Ecological effect

Seed endophytes (SEs) are of particular interest in the fields of plant science, microbiology and agronomy due to their unique spatial and functional relationship with the host plant. SEs formed originally in mother plants, represent the majority of vertically transmitted endophytes (VTEs) in plants...