Fungal endophytes of native grasses decrease insect herbivore preference and performance

Oecologia

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 431-444

  Crawford, Kerri M ^a   Land, John M ^a   Rudgers, Jennifer A ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alkaloids; Herbivore defenses; Lolium arundinaceum; Native grasses; Plant herbivore interactions

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; ANTIHERBIVORE DEFENSE; APHID; ENDOPHYTE; FUNGUS; GRASS; GRASSHOPPER; LOCUST; MOTH; NATIVE SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMAL; APHID; ARMYWORM; ARTICLE; FOOD PREFERENCE; GRASSHOPPER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYPOCREALES; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; FOOD PREFERENCES; GRASSHOPPERS; HYPOCREALES; LARVA; POACEAE; SPODOPTERA; SYMBIOSIS;

FESTUCA ARUNDINACEA; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; LOLIUM; LOLIUM PERENNE; ORTHOPTERA; POACEAE; RHOPALOSIPHUM PADI; SCHISTOCERCA AMERICANA; SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA;

EID: 77956652234     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1685-2     Document Type: Article

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