David Ryan

TL;DR: Endophytic bacteria have been found in virtually every plant studied, where they colonize the internal tissues of their host plant and can form a range of different relationships including symbiotic, mutualistic, commensalistic and trophobiotic.

TL;DR: The results showed that many of the endophytic strains produced GA and have moderate to high phosphate solubilization capacities, and when inoculated into P. sativum L. plants grown in soil under soluble phosphate limiting conditions, theendophytes that produced medium-high levels of GA displayed beneficial plant growth promotion effects.

TL;DR: The inoculation of a model plant, the pea, with a genetically tagged bacterial endophyte that naturally possesses the ability to degrade 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid demonstrates the usefulness ofacterial endophytes to enhance the phytoremediation of herbicide-contaminated substrates and reduce levels of toxic herbicide residues in crop plants.

TL;DR: All three strains proved to be efficient Rhizosphere colonisers, supporting the theory that the rhizosphere can serve as a source of bacterial endophytes.

TL;DR: The construction of a naphthalene-degrading endophytic strain designated Pseudomonas putida VM1441(pNAH7) was found to be an efficient colonizer of plants, colonizing both the rhizosphere and interior root tissues and resulted in the protection of the host plant from the phytotoxic effects of nAPHthalene.