D. Wilson's research while affiliated with Arizona State University and other places

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Neotyphodium endophytes in introduced agronomic grasses are well known to increase resistance to herbivores, but little is known of interactions between Neotyphodium endophytes and herbivores in native grass populations. We investigated whether endophytes mediate plant-herbivore interactions in a native grass species, Festuca arizonica in the south...
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The discovery of the anti-herbivore properties of Neotyphodium endophytes, most of the available literature suggests that these endophytic fungi are plant defensive mutualists, and ecologists have readily extrapolated it to all endophyte-plant interactions (Breen 1994, Clay 1990). The current understanding of the mutualistic nature of endophytes is...

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... "Neotyphodium in Native Populations of Arizona Fescue: A Nonmutualist?" (Faeth et al. 1997), "Neotyphodium in Arizona Fescue: A Necessary Symbiont?" (Sullivan and Faeth 1999), ...
... The beneficial effects of Epichloë endophytes on insect resistance of hosts have been widely studied, yet neutral or negative effects have been repoerted on a few native grasses (Saikkonen et al. 1999;Jani et al. 2010). In the present study, the native grass L. chinensis was used as the plant material, and L. migratoria was chosen as the herbivorous insect. ...