Infection by a foliar endophyte elicits novel arabidopside- based plant defence reactions in its host, Cirsium arvense
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Infection by a foliar endophyte elicits novel arabidopside-based plant defence reactions in its host, Cirsium arvense.
Endophytic fungi live asymptomatically within plants. They are usually regarded as nonpathogenic or even mutualistic, but whether plants respond antagonistically to their presence remains unclear, particularly in the little-studied associations between endophytes and nongraminoid herbaceous plants. We investigated the effects of the endophyte Chaetomium cochlioides on leaf chemistry in Cirsium ...
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