Talk:Endophyte

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statement validity check
The type of symbiosis exhibited between plant and endophyte is often related to the reproductive mode of the endophyte. For example, vertically transmitted fungal endophytes (i.e. transmitted from parent to its offspring directly) are asexual and transmit via fungal hyphae penetrating the host’s seeds (e.g. Neotyphodium). Evolutionary theory predicts these endophytes to evolve toward mutualism, since their reproductive fitness is intimately tied to that of their host plant. Conversely, horizontally transmitted fungal endophytes are sexual and transmit via spores that can be spread by wind and/or insect vectors. Therefore, these endophytes can evolve a more pathogenic lifestyle since they can escape their host plant.


 * I am not sure that this statement is true because endophytes, even horizontally transmitted ones, may be mutualistic. Horizontal transmission is not a driving force to develop pathogenicity. Perhaps it is true that horizontally transmitted endophytes often have closely related pathogenic relatives or spread in a similar manner to pathogens, but they aren't pathogens. And the concept of "pathogenic lifestyle" needs more elaboration. I'm going to try and fix it some. Sifaka   talk  21:03, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Expansion
Vinh1000 (talk) 11:11, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Endophyte: A stub currently, it lacks any sort of information on biology, reproduction and transmission, discovery, history, and human use. Attention on any of these pieces would help. Sifaka   talk

Where to find sources
Dr. Betsy Arnold at the University of Arizona specializes in endophyte diversity and their impact on plants and has published lots of high quality peer reviewed papers. If someone is looking for sources to ref the content with, her name is a good place to start. Sifaka  talk  02:33, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Request Move to Leaf Endophyte

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: Not moved. EdJohnston (talk) 16:43, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Endophyte → Leaf Endophyte – Currently this article discusses only leaf endophytes, so it would improve the article if the title was changed to ""Leaf Endophyte"". This would also allow for the creation of a page on root endophyte such as Dark Septate Endophytes. Pseudo ldereske (talk) 20:56, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
 * There's not enough material to split the topic, you can create sections for leaf and root endophytes. It's a good effort to expand on different endophytes. It seems u can contribute some interesting information. - Sidelight 12 Talk 21:02, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
 * The only endophyte (Piriformospora indica) that is mentioned in the article as colonizing a specific plant organ colonizes roots. Not enough material to split, and the article is not only about leaf endophytes. Plantdrew (talk) 16:46, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose: could be enlarged in place. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 17:49, 22 March 2014 (UTC)


 * You'd probably want Lead endophyte anyway, per WP:NCCAPS. --BDD (talk) 16:43, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose: Other endophytes can be handled in this page. If it gets too large, it can later be split. The existence of this page does not disallow information or pages about other endophytes. If moved, I agree with BDD about case. —Ost (talk) 14:22, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
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too many sources, and the wrong kind
this article has been refspammed to death. too many sources, and way too many primary sources. one recent review is all that is needed, and none for anything in the lead, if all it does is summary the body, as the WP:LEAD should. what a mess. Jytdog (talk) 05:17, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
 * some of this was cleaned up here; there remains a huge pile of refs cited in the lead that aren't used in the body. all the lead does is summarize the body so there is no need at all for refs in the lead; certainly no ref should be in the lead that is not in the body.  again it appears that somebody just piled refs into this article and there is little connection between the content and the refs from which it was supposedly generated.  Things start with refs here; content is generated from refs (Wikipedia articles summarize accepted knowledge that is found in reliable sources) - refs are not just tacked on to content. Jytdog (talk) 16:22, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

endozoites
People may be interested in the animal side of the process (and no, this is not about any skin microbiome): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/gbb.12680 --SCIdude (talk) 09:23, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

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