Costs of fungal endophyte infection in Lolium perenne genotypes from Eurasia and North Africa under extreme resource limitation

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 202-210

  Cheplick, Gregory P ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost of infection; Endophytes; Lolium perenne (perennial ryegrass); Mineral nutrient stress; Neotyphodium lolii; Relative interaction intensity

Indexed keywords

ENDOPHYTE; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; GENOTYPE; GRASS; HOST RANGE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; ROOT-SHOOT RATIO;

AFRICA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TUNISIA; TURKEY;

LOLIUM PERENNE; NEOTYPHODIUM LOLII;

EID: 33847635684     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2006.10.001     Document Type: Article

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