Table 1.

Benefits provided by endophytic fungi to host plants

S. No	Endophyte	Host	Rewards to the host	Reference
1	Paecilomyces formosus	Cucumis sativus L	IAA and various gibberellic acids (GA1, GA3, GA4, GA8, GA9, GA12, GA20, GA24)	Khan et al. (2012)
2	Penicillium sp.	Camellia sinensis L	Phosphate solubilization	Nath et al. (2012)
3	Colletotrichum gloeosporioides CG60	Halophyte	Gibberellin hormone	Khalmuratova et al. (2015)
4	Chaetomium globosum	Amaranthus viridis	Cytotoxic and antimicrobial properties	Piyasena et al. (2015)
5	Lasidioplodia pseusotheobromae	Hottuynia cordata Thunb	IAA and siderophore production	Aramsirirujiwet et al. (2016)
6	Fusarium oxysporum and F. solani	Solanum lycopersicum	Prevent nematode production	Bogner et al. (2016)
7	Sordariomycetes sp.	Boswellia sacra	IAA production, and enzymes like, phosphatase, cellulase and glucosidase	Khan et al. (2016)
8	Penicillium crustosum	Teucrium polium	IAA production and phosphate solubilization	Hassan, (2017)
9	Trichoderma harzianum TH 5–1-2	Pistacia vera	Chitinase enzyme production	Dolatabad et al. (2017)
10	Fusarium proliferatum BRL1	Oxalis corniculate	Phosphate solubilization, siderophores production, IAA and Gibberellins production	Bilal et al. (2018)
11	Colletotrichum fructicola	Coffea arabica	IAA	Numponsak et al. (2018)
12	Trametes versicolor and Piriformospora indica	Triticum aestivum	Increase biomass and Phosphorus content	Taghinasab et al. (2018)
13	Aspergillus awamori Wl1	Withania somnifera	IAA production	Mehmood et al. (2019)
14	Fusarium oxysporum	Solanum lycopersicum	GA3 production	Ben Rhouma et al. (2020)
15	Daldinia eschscholtzii 2NTYL11	Stemona tuberosa	Phosphate solubilization	Suebrasri et al. (2020)
16	Trichoderma erinaceum ST-KKU2	Zingiber officinale	Phosphate solubilization	Suebrasri et al. (2020)
17	Aspergillus niger	Solanum lycopersicum	IAA, ascorbic acid, phenols, catalases	Aziz et al. (2021)
18	Bipolaris spp.	Zea mays	IAA production	Yousaf et al. (2021)