Does an asexual endophyte symbiont alter life stage and long-term survival in a perennial host grass?

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 748-755

  Faeth, Stanley H ^a   Hamilton, Cyd E ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFINITIVE HOST; ENDOPHYTE; FUNGUS; GRASS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NATIVE SPECIES; SEED; SEEDLING; SURVIVAL; SYMBIONT;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; FESCUE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POACEAE; REPRODUCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

FESTUCA; HYPOCREALES; POACEAE; REPRODUCTION; SEEDS; SYMBIOSIS;

FESTUCA ARIZONICA; FUNGI; NEOTYPHODIUM; POACEAE;

EID: 33845522894     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-006-9123-z     Document Type: Article

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