Symbioses of grasses with seedborne fungal endophytes

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 55, Issue , 2004, Pages 315-340

  Schardl, Christopher L ^a   Leuchtmann, Adrian ^b   Spiering, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Clavicipitaceous fungi; Epichlo ; Mutualism; Neotyphodium; Poaceae

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; FUNGUS; INSECT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NEMATODE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT SEED; POACEAE; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; FUNGI; INSECTS; NEMATODA; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DISEASES; POACEAE; SEEDS; SYMBIOSIS; VERTEBRATES;

CLAVICIPITACEAE; EPICHLOE; FUNGI; INSECTA; NEMATODA; NEOTYPHODIUM; NEOTYPHODIUM COENOPHIALUM; POACEAE; SCHEDONORUS ARUNDINACEUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3242733177     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.55.031903.141735     Document Type: Review

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