Forages and pastures symposium: fungal endophytes of tall fescue and perennial ryegrass: pasture friend or foe?

CA Young, DE Hume, RL McCulley - Journal of animal science, 2013 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT Tall fescue [Lolium arundinaceum (Schreb.) Darbysh. syn. Festuca arundinacea
Schreb.] and perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) are important perennial forage grasses …

Re-Evaluating Botryosphaeriales: Ancestral State Reconstructions of Selected Characters and Evolution of Nutritional Modes

AR Rathnayaka, KWT Chethana, AJL Phillips, JK Liu… - Journal of Fungi, 2023 - mdpi.com
Botryosphaeriales (Dothideomycetes, Ascomycota) occur in a wide range of habitats as
endophytes, saprobes, and pathogens. The order Botryosphaeriales has not been subjected …

Do endophytic fungi grow through their hosts systemically?

JF Yan, SJ Broughton, SL Yang, AC Gange - Fungal ecology, 2015 - Elsevier
Endophyte fungi are ubiquitous within vascular plants and recent evidence suggests that
they have a number of effects on other organisms that attack those plants, such as insects …

Fungi reduce preference and performance of insect herbivores on challenged plants

P Fernandez‐Conradi, H Jactel, C Robin, AJM Tack… - Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Although insect herbivores and fungal pathogens frequently share the same individual host
plant, we lack general insights in how fungal infection affects insect preference and …

Aboveground endophyte affects root volatile emission and host plant selection of a belowground insect

M Rostás, MG Cripps, P Silcock - Oecologia, 2015 - Springer
Plants emit specific blends of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that serve as multitrophic,
multifunctional signals. Fungi colonizing aboveground (AG) or belowground (BG) plant …

Fungus–plant interaction influences plant-feeding insects

A Raman, TS Suryanarayanan - Fungal ecology, 2017 - Elsevier
Fungal infection of plants alters plant metabolism and therefore their chemistry, by either
increasing levels of defence compounds or decreasing levels of nutrients. Such alterations …

Effects of endophyte colonization of Vicia faba (Fabaceae) plants on the life–history of leafminer parasitoids Phaedrotoma scabriventris (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) …

KS Akutse, KKM Fiaboe, J Van den Berg, S Ekesi… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Effects of the fungal endophytes Beauveria bassiana (isolates ICIPE 279, G1LU3, S4SU1)
and Hypocrea lixii (isolate F3ST1) on the life-history of Phaedrotoma scabriventris and …

Pathogenic fungi-induced susceptibility is mitigated by mutual Lactobacillus plantarum in the Drosophila melanogaster model

W Su, J Liu, P Bai, B Ma, W Liu - Bmc Microbiology, 2019 - Springer
Background Since animals frequently encounter a variety of harmful fungi in nature, their
ability to develop sophisticated anti-fungal strategies allows them to flourish across the …

The entomophagous caterpillar fungus Ophiocordyceps sinensis is consumed by its lepidopteran host as a plant endophyte

Z Wang, M Li, W Ju, W Ye, L Xue, DE Boufford, X Gao… - Fungal Ecology, 2020 - Elsevier
Endophytic insect pathogenic fungi of the order Hypocreales reside in plant tissues as
mutualistic partners that protect plants against insect herbivores. Caterpillar fungus …

Belowground ecology of scarabs feeding on grass roots: current knowledge and future directions for management in Australasia

A Frew, K Barnett, UN Nielsen, M Riegler… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Many scarab beetles spend the majority of their lives belowground as larvae, feeding on
grass roots. Many of these larvae are significant pests, causing damage to crops and …