Symbiont-mediated changes in Lolium arundinaceum inducible defenses: Evidence from changes in gene expression and leaf composition

New Phytologist

Volumn 176, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 673-679

  Sullivan, Terrence J ^a   Rodstrom, John ^a   Vandop, Joshua ^a   Librizzi, James ^a   Graham, Candace ^a   Schardl, Christopher L ^b   Bultman, Thomas L ^a  

^a HOPE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endophyte; Herbivory; Induced defenses; Lolium arundinaceum; Neotyphodium; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; LOLINE; MESSENGER RNA;

APHID; BIOASSAY; CHEMICAL DEFENSE; GENE EXPRESSION; HERBIVORY; MONOCOTYLEDON; PHYSICAL DEFENSE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RNA; SYMBIONT;

ANIMAL; APHID; ARMYWORM; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; LOLIUM; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; SYMBIOSIS;

ALKALOIDS; ANIMALS; APHIDS; ECOSYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOCREALES; LOLIUM; PLANT LEAVES; RNA, MESSENGER; SPODOPTERA; SYMBIOSIS;

APHIDIDAE; AVES; FESTUCA ARUNDINACEA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; LOLIUM; NEOTYPHODIUM; NEOTYPHODIUM COENOPHIALUM; POACEAE; RHOPALOSIPHUM PADI; SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 35449002477     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02201.x     Document Type: Article

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