Abiotic Stresses in Endophytic Grasses

Neotyphodium in Cool-Season Grasses

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 187-199

  Malinowski, D P ^a   Belesky, D P ^b   Lewis, G C ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

^b APPALACHIAN FARMING SYSTEMS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endophyte infection; Intercellular symbiotic associations; Loline alkaloids; N. Coenophialum; Neotyphodium spp. endophytes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889427602     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470384916.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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