“…Endophytic bacteria and fungi are symbiotic microorganisms living inside healthy plant tissues without causing any disease symptoms. Some beneficial endophytes stimulate plant growth by producing plant hormones such as indole-3-acetic acid (Santoyo et al, 2016;Hassan, 2017), improve the tolerance to abiotic stresses (Pandey et al, 2018), or promote the plant immunity against microbial pathogens, insects, and herbivores (Azevedo et al, 2000;Ryan et al, 2008;Li et al, 2015;Bamisile et al, 2018).…”