Contents
1 Endophytes as Contender of Plant Productivity and Protection:
An Introduction.......................................... 1
Dinesh K. Maheshwari, Shrivardhan Dheeman and K. Annapurna2 Plant Growth Promotion by Endophytic Bacteria in Nonnative
Crop Hosts.............................................. 11
Akshit Puri, Kiran Preet Padda and Chris P. Chanway3 Endophytic Fungi Bioremediation........................... 47
Yelugere L. Krishnamurthy and B. Shankar Naik
4 Endophytic Bacteria: Role in Phosphate Solubilization.......... 61
Abhishek Walia, Shiwani Guleria, Anjali Chauhan and Preeti Mehta
5 Endophytic Microbes: A Resource for Producing Extracellular
Enzymes................................................ 95
Abdul Latif Khan, Raheem Shahzad, Ahmed Al-Harrasi
and In-Jung Lee6 Beneficial Effects of Bacterial Endophytes on Forest Tree
Species................................................. 111
Akshit Puri, Kiran Preet Padda and Chris P. Chanway7 Role of Bacterial Endophytes in Plant Disease Control.......... 133
A. Muthukumar, R. Udhayakumar and R. Naveenkumar
8 Endophytic Actinobacteria for Sustainable Agricultural
Applications............................................. 163
M.F. Carvalho, Y. Ma, R.S. Oliveira and H. Freitas9 Endophytic Fungi: A Remarkable Source of Biologically
Active Secondary Metabolites............................... 191
Pamoda B. Ratnaweera and E. Dilip de Silvavii