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Neotyphodium melicicola

Neotyphodium melicicola is a systemic and seed-transmissible symbiont of Melica decumbens and Melica racemosa, grasses endemic to southern Africa. [1] Molecular phylogenetic analysis indicates that N. melicicola is an interspecific hybrid, and that its closest relatives are the teleomorphic (sexual) species, Epichloë festucae, and the anamorphic (asexual) species, Neotyphodium aotearoae.

References

  1. Moon CD, Miles CO, Jarlfors U, Schardl CL (2002). “The evolutionary origins of three new Neotyphodium endophyte species from grasses indigenous to the Southern Hemisphere”. Mycologia. 94: 694–711.

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