Genetics, Genomics and Evolution of Ergot Alkaloid Diversity

Two distinct Epichloë species symbiotic with Achnatherum inebrians, drunken horse grass

(2015) Li Chen et al.   MYCOLOGIA

Diversification of Ergot Alkaloids in Natural and Modified Fungi

(2015) Sarah Robinson et al.   Toxins

Alkaloid Genotype Diversity of Tall Fescue Endophytes

(2014) Johanna E. Takach et al.   CROP SCIENCE

Interspecific hybridization and bioactive alkaloid variation increases diversity in endophyticEpichloëspecies ofBromus laevipes

(2014) Nikki D. Charlton et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Alkaloid Variation Among Epichloid Endophytes of Sleepygrass (Achnatherum robustum) and Consequences for Resistance to Insect Herbivores

(2014) Tatsiana Shymanovich et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Histone H3K9 and H3K27 methylation regulates fungal alkaloid biosynthesis in a fungal endophyte-plant symbiosis

(2014) Tetsuya Chujo et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Enzymes from Fungal and Plant Origin Required for Chemical Diversification of Insecticidal Loline Alkaloids in Grass-Epichloë Symbiota

(2014) Juan Pan et al.   PLoS One

Biosynthetic Pathways of Ergot Alkaloids

(2014) Nina Gerhards et al.   Toxins

Characterization of Epichloë coenophiala within the US: are all tall fescue endophytes created equal?

(2014) Carolyn A. Young et al.   Frontiers in Chemistry

Cyclolization of D-Lysergic Acid Alkaloid Peptides

(2013) Judith Havemann et al.   CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY

antiSMASH 2.0—a versatile platform for genome mining of secondary metabolite producers

(2013) Kai Blin et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Ether bridge formation in loline alkaloid biosynthesis

(2013) Juan Pan et al.   PHYTOCHEMISTRY

Plant-Symbiotic Fungi as Chemical Engineers: Multi-Genome Analysis of the Clavicipitaceae Reveals Dynamics of Alkaloid Loci

(2013) Christopher L. Schardl et al.   PLoS Genetics

Currencies of Mutualisms: Sources of Alkaloid Genes in Vertically Transmitted Epichloae

(2013) Christopher Schardl et al.   Toxins

Genotypic and Chemotypic Diversity of Neotyphodium Endophytes in Tall Fescue from Greece

(2012) Johanna E. Takach et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Telomere-Targeted Retrotransposons in the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae: Agents of Telomere Instability

(2012) J. H. Starnes et al.   GENETICS

Genome mining reveals the presence of a conserved gene cluster for the biosynthesis of ergot alkaloid precursors in the fungal family Arthrodermataceae

(2012) C. Wallwey et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Epichloe canadensis, a new interspecific epichloid hybrid symbiotic with Canada wildrye (Elymus canadensis)

(2012) N. D. Charlton et al.   MYCOLOGIA

In vitro conversion of chanoclavine-I aldehyde to the stereoisomers festuclavine and pyroclavine controlled by the second reduction step

(2012) Marco Matuschek et al.   RSC Advances

Chemotypic diversity of epichloae, fungal symbionts of grasses

(2011) Christopher L. Schardl et al.   Fungal Ecology

Abundant Degenerate Miniature Inverted-Repeat Transposable Elements in Genomes of Epichloid Fungal Endophytes of Grasses

(2011) Damien J. Fleetwood et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Prevalence of an intraspecific Neotyphodium hybrid in natural populations of stout wood reed (Cinna arundinacea L.) from eastern North America

(2011) Sita R. Ghimire et al.   MYCOLOGIA

Genome Sequencing and Comparative Transcriptomics of the Model Entomopathogenic Fungi Metarhizium anisopliae and M. acridum

(2011) Qiang Gao et al.   PLoS Genetics

An Old Yellow Enzyme Gene Controls the Branch Point between Aspergillus fumigatus and Claviceps purpurea Ergot Alkaloid Pathways

(2010) C. M. Coyle et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

SMURF: Genomic mapping of fungal secondary metabolite clusters

(2010) Nora Khaldi et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Ergosedmine, a new peptide ergot alkaloid (ergopeptine) from the ergot fungus, Claviceps purpurea parasitizing Calamagrostis arundinacea

(2010) Silvio Uhlig et al.   Phytochemistry Letters

Insights into evolution of multicellular fungi from the assembled chromosomes of the mushroom Coprinopsis cinerea (Coprinus cinereus)

(2010) J. E. Stajich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Combinatorial Assembly of Simple and Complex d-Lysergic Acid Alkaloid Peptide Classes in the Ergot FungusClaviceps purpurea

(2009) Ingo Ortel et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Ergot alkaloids: extent of human and animal exposure

(2009) P. Scott   World Mycotoxin Journal

Characterization of Chromosome Ends in the Filamentous Fungus Neurospora crassa

(2008) C. Wu et al.   GENETICS

Phylogeny.fr: robust phylogenetic analysis for the non-specialist

(2008) A. Dereeper et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

A Novel Test for Host-Symbiont Codivergence Indicates Ancient Origin of Fungal Endophytes in Grasses

(2008) C. L. Schardl et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Use of a nonhomologous end joining deficient strain (Δku70) of the ergot fungus Claviceps purpurea for identification of a nonribosomal peptide synthetase gene involved in ergotamine biosynthesis

(2007) Thomas Haarmann et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY