Related Experiment Video
Updated: Jul 9, 2026

A Workflow for the Quantitative Assessment of the Endophytic and Epiphytic Bacterial Microbiomes of the Bark of Populus trichocarpa
Published on: June 27, 2025
Mycobiota of the date palm phylloplane: description and interactions
Leticia Asensio1, José Angel López-Jiménez, Luis Vicente López-Llorca
1Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Multidisciplinary Institute for Environmental Research "Ramon Margalef", Department of Marine Sciences and Applied Biology, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
Abstract:
We have analysed the mycobiota of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera, L.) leaves using several techniques. Profusely sporulating fungi (Penicillium spp. and Cladosporium spp.) developed when plating leaf fragments and leaf washings. Fusarium oxysporum, was particularly abundant in leaves infested with the red scale insect Phoenicococcus marlatti Cockerell, 1899, but an undescribed Lecanicillium cf. psalliotae was also found. Dual and overlay cultures showed interactions between palm pathogens, entomopathogenic and saprotrophic fungi. The most significant was the strong inhibition of the palm pathogen Penicillium vermoesenii caused by the entomopathogen Beauveria bassiana. No symptoms developed when F. oxysporum isolated from scale insects or the entomopathogens B. bassiana or Lecanicillium dimorphum were wound-inoculated on P. dactylifera petioles.
More Related Videos
Related Concept Videos
Microbe-Plant Interactions
Epiphytes, Parasites, and Carnivores
Microbial Interactions: Mutualism
Bacterial Phylum Tenericutes
The Roles of Bacteria and Fungi in Plant Nutrition
Introduction to Plant Diversity

