Endophyte-Mediated Drought Tolerance in Forage Grasses: Field Study Over Two Dry Seasons

Authors

  • Dearbhla Ahearne Centre for Plant-Microbe Interactions, Blackwater Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Fermoy, Ireland Author
  • Danijela Jerkovic Department of Plant Physiology, Dalmatinska Zagora Centre for Plant Genome Engineering, Knin, Croatia Author
  • Kaarlo Elomaa Department of Agronomy, Etela-Pohjanmaa Centre for Plant Genome Engineering, Kauhava, Finland Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22666543

Keywords:

Endophyte-Mediated Drought Tolerance in Forage Grasses; Agricultural biotechnology; Gene editing; Evidence synthesis; Biosafety regulation

Abstract

Endophyte-Mediated Drought Tolerance in Forage Grasses has moved quickly from a research idea to something a working
breeding or production programme can actually use, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the
current evidence for endophyte-mediated drought tolerance in forage grasses, covering the methodological, practical, regulatory
and cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and regulators are still largely
working it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either
broad rollout or blanket avoidance.

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