Are loline alkaloid levels regulated in grass endophytes by gene expression or substrate availability?

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1419-1422

  Zhang, Dong Xiu ^a,b   Nagabhyru, Padmaja ^a   Blankenship, Jimmy D ^a   Schardl, Christopher L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epichlo ; Grass endophyte; Insecticidal; Loline alkaloids; Neotyphodium; Rna seq; Rt qpcr; Stroma; Symbiont

Indexed keywords

ANTHOMYIIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EPICHLOE; HEXAPODA; NEOTYPHODIUM; POACEAE; POOIDEAE;

ALKALOID; AMINO ACID; LOLINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NEOTYPHODIUM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POACEAE;

ALKALOIDS; AMINO ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; NEOTYPHODIUM; POACEAE; SEEDS; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 78650102015     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.5.11.13395     Document Type: Article

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