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Toxin-producing Epichloë bromicola strains symbiotic with the forage grass Elymus dahuricus in China.
Mycologia - 1 Jan 2017
Shi Chong, An Shazhou, Yao Zhengpei, Young Carolyn A, Panaccione Daniel G, Lee Stephen T, Schardl Christopher L, Li Chunjie
Abstract excerpt
Cool-season grasses (Poaceae subfamily Poöideae) are an important forage component for livestock in western China, and many have seed-transmitted symbionts of the genus Epichloë, fungal endophytes that are broadly distributed geographically and in many tribes of the Poöideae. Epichloë strains can produce any of several classes of alkaloids, of which ergot alkaloids and indole-diterpenes can be toxic to mammalian...
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