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Peramine and other fungal alkaloids are exuded in the guttation fluid of endophyte-infected grasses

Albert Koulman, Geoffrey A Lane, Mike J Christensen, Karl Fraser, and Brian A Tapper

Phytochemistry 68(3):6 (2007) PMID 17126863

Peramine was detected by LCMSMS in guttation fluid and cut leaf fluid of grass-endophyte associations. In some associations we also detected loline and ergot peptide alkaloids. This is the first report establishing the mobilization of fungal alkaloids into plant fluids in the grass-endophyte symbiosis.

Copyright © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2006.10.012
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