| grass-herbivore interactions altered by strains of a native endophyte. | many plants support symbiotic microbes, such as endophytic fungi, that can alter interactions with herbivores. most endophyte research has focused on agronomically important species, with less known about the ecological roles of native endophytes in native plants. in particular, whether genetic variation among endophyte symbionts affects herbivores of plant hosts remains unresolved for most native endophytes. here, we investigate the importance of native isolates of the endophyte epichloë elymi ... | 2006 | 16626473 |
| variation in horizontal and vertical transmission of the endophyte epichloë elymi infecting the grass elymus hystrix. | systemic fungal endophytes (clavicipitaceae) of grasses reproduce sexually when the fungus forms stromata and contagious ascospores, or asexually by vertical transmission of hyphae into seeds and seedlings. vertical transmission is predicted to favor reduced virulence compared with horizontal transmission in systems with both types of transmission. here, variation in vertical and horizontal transmission and its potential heritability in a host grass-endophyte interaction, elymus hystrix infected ... | 2008 | 18422901 |