Paspalum dilatatum

The strain employed in the instant invention was isolated from a sclerotium of Clavicepspaspali parasitic upon Paspalum dilatatum Poir. of Australian origin, and a culture thereof has been placed on permanent deposit with the American IVpe Culture Collection, Washington, D.C. The said culture was submitted under the strain number 247/61 and has been assigned the ATCC accession number 14988. 

Flowers of Paspalum dilatatum inoculated with ascospores by rubbing stromatic heads against stigmas and spikelets of the grass heads showed abundant evidence of infection in seven days. Flowers on control plants showed no infection. (Both inoculated plants and controls were kept under bell Jars.) In the field, infected heads are not found for... 

Some Physiological Aspects of Paspalum dilatatum Grown Under Field Conditions 863... 

SOME PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PASPALUM DILATATUM GROWN UNDER FIELD CONDITIONS... 

Five tremorgenic mycotoxins, containing indole condensed with a diterpenoid unit, have been isolated from Claviceps paspali paraziting on the grass Paspalum dilatatum (Acklin et al, 1977 Cole et al, 1977 Scott, 1984). Their structures are in the Figure 18. 

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