Epichloë and Neotyphodium species (Ascomycota) are mutualistic symbionts (endophytes)
of temperate grasses, to which they impart numerous and profound fitness benefits. Epichloë …

Fine fescues (Festuca L. spp.) comprise a group of five cool‐season grasses used in
turfgrass systems under many conditions: strong creeping red fescue (F. rubra L. ssp. rubra …

Since the publication of the third edition of the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress,
continuous discoveries in the fields of plant and crop environmental stresses and their …

Fungal endophytes provide grasses with enhanced protection from herbivory, drought, and
pathogens. The loline alkaloids (saturated 1-aminopyrrolizidines with an oxygen bridge) are …

Abbreviations: ML, maximum likelihood; MP maximum parsimony, MP-I through MP-IX,
biological species (mating populations) I through IX; NJ, neighbor joining; rDNA-ITS, internal …

Kernels of corn, Zea mays, were inoculated with Fusarium moniliforme to analyze seedling
growth and development during endophytic, symptomless infection. In planta F. moniliforme …

Abstract Neotyphodium coenophialum,(Morgan‐Jones & Gams) Glenn, Bacon & Hanlin,
infected tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.) plants perform better than non‐infected …

Abstract 1 Grass leaves are often inhabited by fungal endophytes that can enhance host
growth. In some forage species, endophytes improve host resistance to, and recovery from …

The ability of organisms to form long term intimate and diverse relationships with each other
(symbiosis) is now recognized as a common ecological phenomenon. Symbiosis, as a …

Over the past several decades, breeding cool-season turfgrasses for improved disease
resistance has been the focus of many turfgrass breeding programs. This review article …