knowing your neighbourhood—the effects of epichloë endophytes on foliar fungal assemblages in perennial ryegrass in dependence of season and land-use intensity

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Abstract
Epichloë endophytes associated with cool-season grass species can protect their hosts from herbivory and can suppress mycorrhizal colonization of the hosts’ roots. However, little is known about whether or not Epichloë endophyte infection can also change the foliar fungal assemblages of the host. We tested 52 grassland study sites along a land-use intensity gradient in three study regions over two seasons (spring vs. summer) to determine whether Epichloë infection of the host grass Lolium perenne changes the fungal community structure in leaves. Foliar fungal communities were assessed by Next Generation Sequencing of the ITS rRNA gene region. Fungal community structure was strongly affected by study region and season in our study, while land-use intensity and infection with Epichloë endophytes had no significant effects. We conclude that effects on non-systemic endophytes resulting from land use practices and Epichloë infection reported in other studies were masked by local and seasonal variability in this study’s grassland sites.
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Authors ;Julia König;Marco Alexandre Guerreiro;Derek Peršoh;Dominik Begerow;Jochen Krauss
Journal pediatrics
Year 2018
DOI
10.7717/peerj.4660
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https://peerj.com/articles/4660/
Keywords
land use endophytic fungi

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