Extracellular Glycolytic Activities in Root Endophytic Serendipitaceae and Their Regulation by Plant Sugars
Endophytic fungi that colonize the plant root live in an environment with relative high concentrations of different sugars.Analyses of genome sequences indicate that such endophytes can secrete carbohydrate-related enzymes to compete for these sugars with the surrounding plant cells.We hypothesized that typical plant sugars can be used as carbon so