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Adult corn flea beetle (Chaetocnema pulicaria) were less numerous on plots containing tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea) infected with the endophytic fungus Neotyphodium coenophialum than on endophyte-free tall fescue plots (Kirfman et al. 1986). The experiments described in this paper were aimed to ascertain whether the endophyte-mediated resistance to corn flea beetle was a consequence of antibiosis or feeding deterrence, and whether grass-endophyte associations other than tall fescue-N. coenophialum were also resistant.
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Ball, O.JP., Pless, C., Gwinn, K.D. (1997). Corn Flea Beetle (Chaetocnema Pulicaria) Responses to Natural Endophytes of Tall Fescue, Meadow Fescue, and Perennial Ryegrass. In: Bacon, C.W., Hill, N.S. (eds) Neotyphodium/Grass Interactions. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0271-9_42
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