FunEndo: A Comprehensive Global Scale Repository of Fungal Endophytes

This study examines both published and unpublished data on fungal endophytes, originally isolated with different methods from various plant species, different plant organs, and diverse geographical regions, with the following objectives:

1) generating a first-of-its-kind global-scale database of fungal species reported as endophytes.

2) exploring how factors such as fungal phylogeny, host phylogeny, geography, and climate factors impact the diversity and distribution of endophytes.

3) performing an in-depth analysis of the variability in host and organ specificity among fungal endophytes, and identifying taxa that demonstrate the highest degrees of specificity.