Festuca spp

Festuceae Temperate, particularly USA Lolium spp. - ryegrasses Festuca spp. - fescues Bromus spp. - bromes... 

Zoysiagrass Zoysia spp. East Asia Perennial ryegrass Lolium perenne Red fescue Festuca rubra Tall fescue Festuca arundinacea Eurasia/Africa North America, Africa, Eurasia Eurasia... 

Uptake of B is species dependent. Greenhouse pot experiments were conducted to study B uptake by different plant species, Brassica juncea (L.) Czern (wild brown mustard), Festuca arundinacea Schreb. L. (tall fescue), and Brassica napus (canola) (Banuelos et al., 1993). Results showed that the greatest total amount of above ground biomass and below surface biomass was produced by tall fescue and the highest concentrations of tissue B were from roots of tall fescue. A correlation for B and Ca has been reported by Dixon et al. (1973), where B sprays have been shown to increase Ca transport into apples ( Malus spp.). 

Argyreia spp., Ipomoea argyrophylla, I. tricolor, Rivea corumbosa (Convolvulaceae) [drug ololiuqui], Stipa robusta, S. vaseyi (sleepy grass) (Poaceae) Festuca arundinacea (tall fescue) (Poaceae) infected with fungus Acremonium coenophialum... 

There is a strong but not absolute tendency for hybrids in Europe to have ancestors most closely related to European species, but North American and other hybrids often have contributions both from North American species and from species now common in Europe. In fact, Eurasia-associated spp. E. typhina and E. festucae show up as likely contributors to hybrids throughout the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. These relationships suggest that E. typhina, E. festucae and perhaps other Epichloe spp. may have been very widespread previously, but later became rare or extinct outside Eurasia. 

Sepiapterin (60) has been isolated from the sepia mutant of this species. Festuca and Lolium spp. 

From grasses it is well known that there are infected and non-infected populations, e.g., of Festuca armdinacea, which are defined scientifically in publications in abbreviated form as El (= endophyte-infected) or E+ (= endophyte is present) vs EE (= endophyte free) or E- (= endophyte is not present), respectively. To date it is an umesolved issue whether there are also infected as well as uninfected species or populations of species in the ergoline-positive Ipomoeeae. If this would be the case this could explain perhaps - at least in some cases - the existence of contradictory reports on the occurrence of ergoline alkaloids in certain Ipomoea spp. (Table 4.2). 

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