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Mangrove endophytic fungal diversity via metagenomics – a systematic review

mangrove endophytes,amplicon sequencing

Mangroves are unique coastal ecosystems critical for protecting shorelines, sequestering carbon and harboring biodiversity. Despite their importance, mangrove microbial communities, especially endophytic fungi, remain largely understudied. These fungi, live symbiotically inside plant tissues without causing harm, are play an important ecological role. Metagenomics offers a cutting-edge approach to explore the diversity and function of these fungi revealing twice as many species as traditional cultivation methods. Cultivation methods are particularly ineffective at detecting basidiomycetes due to the lack of necessary conditions in the laboratory. Current literature on mangrove endophytic fungi using metagenomics is sparse and fragmented.