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Title: Tall fescue-Epichloë coenophiala associations affect belowground fungi and host, symbiont response to climate change

Author
item SLAUGHTER, LINDSEY - University Of Kentucky
item NELSON, JIM - University Of Kentucky
item ELIZABETH, CARLISLE - University Of Kentucky
item BOURGUIGNON, MARIE - University Of Kentucky
item Dinkins, Randy
item PHILLIPS, TIM - University Of Kentucky
item MCCULLEY, REBECCA - University Of Kentucky

Submitted to: American Society of Agronomy Meetings
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 6/7/2016
Publication Date: N/A
Citation: N/A

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Plants interact with myriad microorganisms, which influence ecosystem processes and can regulate ecosystem response to global change. One important symbiosis occurs between the grass, tall fescue (Schedonorus arundinaceus), and the asexual fungal endophyte Epichloë coenophiala. Because the common toxic endophyte (CTE) strain harms grazing livestock, non-livestock toxic endophyte (NTE) strains are increasingly deployed in pastures. Little is known about how these symbioses impact other plant-microbe-soil interactions in grasslands or how these relationships will respond to climate change.