The herbaceous landlord: integrating the effects of symbiont consortia within a single host.

ABSTRACT: Plants are typically infected by a consortium of internal fungal associates, including endophytes in their leaves, as well as arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and dark septate endophytes (DSE) in their roots. It is logical that these organisms will interact with each other and the abiotic environment in addition to their host, but there has been little work to date examining the interactions of multiple symbionts within single plant hosts, or how the relationships among symbionts and their host change across environmental conditions. We examined the grass Agrostis capillaris in the context of a climate manipulation experiment in prairies in the Pacific Northwest, USA. Each plant was tested for presence of foliar endophytes in the genus Epichloë, and we measured percent root length coloni

SUBMITTER: Vandegrift R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4636405 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature