Three new species of Epichloe symbiotic with North American grasses

Mycologia

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 95-107

  Schardl, Christopher L ^a   Leuchtmann, Adrian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biological species; Clavicipitaceae; Grass endophytes; Host specificity; Molecular systematics; Neotyphodium; Symbiosis; tubulin gene

Indexed keywords

INFLORESCENCE; INTRON; MATING SYSTEM; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ENDOPHYTE; FUNGUS; NEW SPECIES; SYMBIOSIS;

NORTH AMERICA;

BRACHYELYTRUM ERECTUM; CLAVICIPITACEAE; ELYMUS; ELYMUS ELYMI; ELYMUS GLYCERIAE; EPICHLOE; EPICHLOE BRACHYELYTRI; EPICHLOE ELYMI; EPICHLOE GLYCERIAE; FUNGI; GLYCERIA STRIATA; NEOTYPHODIUM; POACEAE;

EID: 0032904464     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3761196     Document Type: Article

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