Novel perennial ryegrass-Neotyphodium endophyte associations: Relationships between seed weight, seedling vigour and endophyte presence

Symbiosis

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 51-62

  Card, Stuart D ^a   Rolston, M Philip ^b   Lloyd West, Catherine ^a   Hume, David E ^a  

^a AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

^b AGRESEARCH LTD   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Epichlo ; Germination; Lolium perenne; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CULTIVAR; ENDOPHYTE; FORAGE; GERMINATION; PERENNIAL PLANT; SEED; SEED DORMANCY; SEEDLING; SYMBIOSIS;

EPICHLOE; FUNGI; LOLIUM; LOLIUM PERENNE; NEOTYPHODIUM; NEOTYPHODIUM LOLII;

EID: 84898058286     PISSN: 03345114     EISSN: 18787665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13199-014-0271-5     Document Type: Article

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