Evidence for genetic differentiation between choke-inducing and asymptomatic strains of the Epichloe grass endophyte from Brachypodium sylvaticum

Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1879-1887

  Bucheli, Erika ^a   Leuchtmann, Adrian ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acremonium; allozymes; Epichloe; grass endophytes; linkage analysis; mode of transmission; stroma formation

Indexed keywords

BRACHYPODIUM SYLVATICUM; EPICHLOE; FUNGI;

EID: 0029829781     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb03575.x     Document Type: Article

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