Currencies of mutualisms: Sources of alkaloid genes in vertically transmitted epichloae

Toxins

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1064-1088

  Schardl, Christopher L ^a   Young, Carolyn A ^b   Pan, Juan ^a   Florea, Simona ^a   Takach, Johanna E ^b   Panaccione, Daniel G ^c   Farman, Mark L ^a   Webb, Jennifer S ^a   Jaromczyk, Jolanta ^a   Charlton, Nikki D ^b   Nagabhyru, Padmaja ^a   Chen, Li ^a,d   Shi, Chong ^a,e   Leuchtmann, Adrian ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e XINJIANG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Clavicipitaceae; Endophytes; Epichloae; Ergot alkaloids; Grasses; Indole diterpenes; Lolines; Poaceae; Po ideae; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

DITERPENE; ERGOT ALKALOID; LOLINE;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAS GENE; EPICHLOAE; FUNGUS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SCALE ANALYSIS; HYBRID; IDT GENE; LOL GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; SYMBIOSIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ALKALOIDS; DITERPENES; DNA, FUNGAL; EPICHLOE; GENES, FUNGAL; NEOTYPHODIUM; PHYLOGENY; POACEAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

CLAVICIPITACEAE; EPICHLOE; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; NEOTYPHODIUM; POACEAE; POOIDEAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84879003167     PISSN: 20726651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/toxins5061064     Document Type: Article

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