Editing Endophyte (section)

== History ==
Endophytes were first described by the German botanist [[Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link]] in 1809. They were thought to be plant parasitic fungi and they were later termed as "microzymas" by the French scientist Béchamp. There was a belief that plants were healthy under sterile conditions and it was not until 1887 that [[Marie Louis Victor Galippe|Victor Galippe]] discovered bacteria normally occurring inside plant tissues.<ref name="The Hidden World within Plants: Eco">{{cite journal | vauthors = Hardoim PR, van Overbeek LS, Berg G, Pirttilä AM, Compant S, Campisano A, Döring M, Sessitsch A | display-authors = 6 | title = The Hidden World within Plants: Ecological and Evolutionary Considerations for Defining Functioning of Microbial Endophytes | journal = Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews | volume = 79 | issue = 3 | pages = 293–320 | date = September 2015 | pmid = 26136581 | pmc = 4488371 | doi = 10.1128/MMBR.00050-14 }}</ref> Though, most of the endophytic studies reports the mutualistic relationship of bacteria and fungus, Das et al., (2019) reported about endophytic virome and their probable function in plant defense mechanisms.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Das|first1=Saurav|last2=Barooah|first2=Madhumita|last3=Thakur|first3=Nagendra|date=2019-04-17|title=Endophytic Virome|url=https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/602144v2|journal=bioRxiv|language=en|pages=602144|doi=10.1101/602144|s2cid=146037776}}</ref>