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Filtering by: Contributor advisor sim Welty, Ronald E. Date issued sim 1987-12-16

Distribution of Acremonium coenophialum in developing seedlings and inflorescences of Festuca arundinacea

Creator:

Cook, Kathy L.

Abstract:

Acremonium coenophialum is an endophytic fungus which infects the reproductive and vegetative tissue of tall fescue. Interest in this fungus was sparked by research which linked its presence in tall fescue with reduced weight gains and alkaloid-like poisoning in cattle. Incomplete information was available on the endophyte's life or disease...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis