Endophytic fungi in indigenous Australasian grasses associated with toxicity to livestock

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 601-606

  Miles, Christopher O ^a   Di Menna, Margaret E ^a   Jacobs, Surrey W L ^c   Garthwaite, Ian ^a   Lane, Geoffrey A ^b   Prestidge, Ron A ^a,e   Marshall, Sergio L ^a   Wilkinson, Heather H ^d   Schardl, Christopher L ^d   Ball, Olivier J P ^b   Latch, Garrick C M ^b  

^a RUAKURA RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^b AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

^c ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS AND DOMAIN TRUST   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^e Hamilton Research Institute   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL INFECTION; GRASS; LIVESTOCK; PASTURE; TOXICITY;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; FUNGUS; GRASS; NONHUMAN; PHYTOTOXICITY; PLANT SEED;

AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND;

ANIMALIA; ARGENTINA (FISH); ECHINOPOGON; EPICHLOE; FUNGI; LISTRONOTUS; LISTRONOTUS BONARIENSIS; LOLIUM PERENNE; NEOTYPHODIUM; NEOTYPHODIUM LOLII; OVATUS; POACEAE;

EID: 0031938498     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.2.601-606.1998     Document Type: Article

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