Seed Endophytes

Section A: Seed Endophytes: Introduction, and Methods for Assessment and Management.- 1. Seed-vectored microbes: Their roles in improving seedling fitness and competitor plant suppression.- 2. Thinking about PPFM bacteria as a model of seed endophytes: Who are they? Where did they come from? What are they doing for the plant? What can they do for us?.- 3. Seed endophytes and their potential applications.- 4. Exploring endophytic communities of plants: Methods for assessing diversity, effects on host development, and potential biotechnological applications.- 5. Understanding the indigenous seed microbiota to design bacterial seed treatments.- Section B: Seed Endophytes: Ecology, Transmission and Adaptations.- 6. The ecology of seed microbiota.- 7. Programming plants for climate resilience through symbiogenics.- 8. Agave seed endophytes: Ecology and impacts on root architecture, nutrient acquisition and cold stress tolerance.- 9.Chemical warfare in the plant microbiome leads to a balance of antagonisms and a healthy plant.- 10. Fungal and bacterial maize kernal interactions with the vertically transmitted endophytic state of Fusarium verticillioides.- Section C: Seed Endophytes: Biology and Functional Roles in Plant development.- 11. Functional roles of seed-inhabiting endophytes of rice.- 12. Mechanism of interaction of endophytic microbes with plants.- 13. Fitness attributes of bacterial and fungal seed endophytes of tall fescue.- 14. Role of the plant root microbiome in abiotic stress tolerance.- 15. Endophytic microbes: Prospects and their application in abiotic stress management and phytoremediation.- 16. Pine seeds carry symbionts: Endophyte transmission re-examined.- Section D: Seed Endophytes: Agricultural Applications and Biotechnology.- 17. Seed endophytes of Jasione Montana: Arsenic detoxification workers in an eco-friendly factory.- 18. Agricultural applications of endophytic microflora.- 19. Rhizome endophytes:  Role and application in sustainable agriculture.- 20. Agriculturally important biosynthetic features of endophytic microorganisms.- 21. Microbial Endophytes of maize seeds and their application in crop improvements.- 22. Colonization of seeds by soilborne fungi: linking seed dormancy-defense syndromes, evolutionary constraints, and fungal traits.- 23. Seed Endophytes in Crop plants:Metagenomic approaches to study the functional roles and interactions.