Publications
| fungal genotype controls mutualism and sex in brachypodium sylvaticum infected by epichloë sylvatica. | the fungal endophyte epichloë sylvatica (clavicipitaceae, ascomycota) may obligatorily infect the woodland grass brachypodium sylvaticum, on which it can display two alternative modes of reproduction. during the sexual cycle, external stromata suppress host flowering and production of seed (choke disease), whereas in the asexual cycle the fungus remains asymptomatic and transmits vertically by seeds. variation in the reproductive system thus determines whether the symbiosis is mutualistic or par ... | 2001 | 11426859 |
| direct classification of related species of fungal endophytes (epichloë spp.) using visible and near-infrared spectroscopy and multivariate analysis. | the aim of this work was to investigate the potential of visible and near-infrared (vis-nir) reflectance spectroscopy for the classification of three morphologically similar species of fungal endophytes of grasses. vis-nir spectra (400-2498 nm) from 34 isolates of epichloë sylvatica, 32 of epichloë typhina and 38 of epichloë festucae were recorded directly from fresh mycelium growing in potato dextrose agar plates. multivariate procedures applied to the spectral data were discriminant modified p ... | 2008 | 18492058 |