Lysergic acid amide, endophyte-infected

Miles CO, Lane GA, di Menna ME, Garthwaite I, Piper EL, Ball OJ-P, Latch GCM, Allen JM, Hunt MB, Bush LP, Min FK, Fletcher I, Harris PS. High levels of ergonovine and lysergic acid amide in toxic Achnatherum inebrians accompany infection by an Acremonium-like endophytic fungus. J Agric Food Chem 44 1285-1290, 1996. 

Infected individuals of several grass species are more resistant to a number of insect herbivores (Clay, 1988). Further, seeds of infected species are more resistant to herbivore attack (Cheplick and Clay, 1988). Lysergic acid amide (10), isolysergic acid amide, 8-hydroxylysergic acid (15), ergonovine, chanoclavine I (7), and A(-formylloline all were isolated from Stipa robusta infected with an Acremonium endophyte (Petroski et al., 1992 Powell and Petroski, 1992). 

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