Endophyte-mediated resistance to herbivores depends on herbivore identity in the wild grass festuca subverticillata

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1086-1095

  Afkhami, Michelle E ^a   Rudgers, Jennifer A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context dependent interactions; Epichloe; Food choice; Neotyphodiu; n; Spodoptera frugiperda

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; ANTIHERBIVORE DEFENSE; BIOCONTROL AGENT; ENDOPHYTE; FITNESS; FOOD SELECTION; FUNGUS; GRASS; GROWTH RESPONSE; HOST PLANT; INSECT; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; SYMBIONT; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; APHID; ARMYWORM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FESCUE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INSECT; MICROBIOLOGY; NEOTYPHODIUM; ORTHOPTERA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; FESTUCA; FOOD PREFERENCES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; INSECTS; NEOTYPHODIUM; ORTHOPTERA; SPODOPTERA; SYMBIOSIS;

EPICHLOE; FESTUCA SUBVERTICILLATA; HEXAPODA; NEOTYPHODIUM; POACEAE; PTEROPHYLLA CAMELLIFOLIA; RHOPALOSIPHUM PADI; ROMALEA GUTTATA; SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA;

EID: 69849114019     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/022.038.0416     Document Type: Article

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