Contribution of ergot alkaloids to suppression of a grass-feeding caterpillar assessed with gene knockout endophytes in perennial ryegrass

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 138-147

  Potter, Daniel A ^a   Tyler Stokes, J ^a   Redmond, Carl T ^a   Schardl, Christopher L ^b   Panaccione, Daniel G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrotis ipsilon; Ascomycota; Black cutworm; Clavicipitaceae; Defensive mutualism; Ergovaline; Host plant resistance; Lolium perenne; Neotyphodium; Tritrophic interaction

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CATERPILLAR; ENDOPHYTE; FUNGUS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; GRASS; INHIBITION; MUTATION; PARASITE RESISTANCE; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION;

AGROTIS IPSILON; ASCOMYCOTA; CLAVICIPITACEAE; EPICHLOE; EPICHLOE TYPHINA; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; LOLIUM PERENNE; MAMMALIA; NEOTYPHODIUM; NEOTYPHODIUM LOLII; NOCTUIDAE; POACEAE;

EID: 38349119127     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2007.00650.x     Document Type: Article

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