Table 2.

Endophytes in improvement of soil health

Endophytes	Host plant	Features of interest in soil health management	Reference(s)
Neotyphodium coenophialum	Festuca arundinacea	Enhancement of soil carbon and nitrogen	Franzluebbers et al. (1999)
Neotyphodium occultans	Lolium multiflorum	Modulation of soil catabolic activity Enhancement of soil microbial (fungal) population and their activities	Casas et al. (2011)
Bacillus spp.	Solanum nigrum	Hyperaccumulation of metal (Cu, Cd, and Cr) in soil	Guo et al. (2010)
Burkholderia cepacia	Zea mays	Phytoremediation of organic contaminants (toluene and phenols)	Wang et al. (2010)
Phomopsis liquidambari	Bischofia polycarpam	Promotion of litter mass degradation Alleviation of soil nitrogen concentration	Chen et al. (2013)
Phialocephala fortinii	Asparagus officinalis	Degradation of organic compounds Improvement of nutrient cycling in the soil	Narisawa (2017)
	Chamaecyparis obtusa and Rubus spp.		Surono and Narisawa (2017)
Enterobacter spp., Microbacterium arborescens, and Pantoea stewartii	Leptochloa fusca and Brachiaria mutica	Enhancement in the uptake, translocation, accumulation, and phyto-stabilization of heavy metal (Cr) in contaminated soil	Ahsan et al. (2018)
Phomopsis liquidambari	Oryza sativa	Increment in decomposition of straw and total soil nitrogen	Sun et al. (2019)
Epichloë gansuensis	Achnatherum inebrians	Improvement of soil fertility and soil nutrients availability by inducing soil enzyme activity such as invertase, alkaline phosphatase and urease	Hou et al. (2020)
Serratia spp., and Arthrobacter spp.	Brassica juncea	Improvement in organic matter content of soil Phytoremediation of vanadium contaminated soil Improvement of plant growth and soil health	Wang et al. (2020a)
Phomopsis liquidambaris	Acharis hypogaea	Alleviation of soil health through improved root exudation Improvement of soil carbon metabolism Increment of rhizospheric bacterial community	Xie et al. (2020)
Acrocalymma vagum and Paraboeremia putaminum	Glycyrrhiza uralensis	Ensure plant growth under drought stress conditions by structuring soil microbiome and maintaining soil water content, soil organic matter, and nutrient availability	He et al. (2021)