Mutualistic asexual endophytes in a native grass are usually parasitic

American Naturalist

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 310-325

  Faeth, Stanley H ^a   Sullivan, T J ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alkaloids; Arizona fescue; Endophytic fungi; Mutualism; Neotyphodium; Parasitism; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; ENDOPHYTE; FUNGUS; GRASS; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; MUTUALISM; PARASITISM;

ARTICLE; FUNGUS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GERMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT SEED; POACEAE; REPRODUCTION; SOIL; SYMBIOSIS;

FUNGI; GENOTYPE; GERMINATION; PLANT DISEASES; POACEAE; REPRODUCTION; SEEDS; SOIL; SYMBIOSIS;

FESTUCA; FESTUCA ARIZONICA; FUNGI; NEOTYPHODIUM; POACEAE;

EID: 0037329862     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/345937     Document Type: Article

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