Growth and Management of Endophytic Grasses in Pastoral Agriculture

Neotyphodium in Cool-Season Grasses

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 201-226

  Hume, David E ^a   Barker, David J ^b  

^a AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endophyte infection; Endophyte infected tillers; Lolium perenne; Lysergyl alkaloids; Perennial ryegrass

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889318400     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470384916.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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