Symbiotic Root-Endophytic Soil Microbes Improve Crop Productivity and Provide Environmental Benefits

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Diagrammatic presentation of how plants and their photosystems are protected from damage by ROS, which is induced by both stress and by photoexcitation. All of the endophytes described in this article have the ability to countervail ROS damage. We hypothesize that this result occurs in better-functioning plants that have optimized internal redox potential.