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SUBMITTER: Lofgren LA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5813145 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lofgren Lotus A LA LeBlanc Nicholas R NR Certano Amanda K AK Nachtigall Jonny J LaBine Kathryn M KM Riddle Jakob J Broz Karen K Dong Yanhong Y Bethan Bianca B Kafer Christopher W CW Kistler H Corby HC
The New phytologist 20171121 3
Mycotoxin-producing Fusarium graminearum and related species cause Fusarium head blight on cultivated grasses, such as wheat and barley. However, these Fusarium species may have had a longer evolutionary history with North American grasses than with cultivated crops and may interact with the ancestral hosts in ways which are biochemically distinct. We assayed 25 species of asymptomatic native grasses for the presence of Fusarium species and confirmed infected grasses as hosts using re-inoculatio ...[more]