Managing Ryegrass-Endophyte Toxicoses

Neotyphodium in Cool-Season Grasses

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 229-241

  Fletcher, Lester R ^a,b  

^a AGRESEARCH LTD   (New Zealand)

^b AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Endemic endophytes; Epoxy janthitrems; Lolium perenne; Nontoxic endophytes; Tremorgens

Indexed keywords

EID: 32344439805     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470384916.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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