Plant-endophyte-herbivore interactions: More than just alkaloids?

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 974-977

  Rasmussen, Susanne ^a   Parsons, Anthony J ^a   Popay, Alison ^b   Xue, Hong ^a   Newman, Jonathan A ^c  

^a AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

^b RUAKURA RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

High sugar grasses; Insect herbivores; Lolium perenne; Metabolomics; Neotyphodium lolii

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA; LOLIUM PERENNE; NEOTYPHODIUM LOLII; POACEAE;

EID: 56049099093     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.6171     Document Type: Article

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