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Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Plant Biol. 2013 Jul 11;16(4):10.1016/j.pbi.2013.06.012. doi: 10.1016/j.pbi.2013.06.012

Table 1. Epichloë and Neotyphodium species with sequenced genomes, and their inferred alkaloid pathway end-products.

Species Isolatea Host Transmission EAb IDTb LOLb PERb
Epichloë amarillans E57 = ATCC 200744 Agrostis hyemalis Mixed NANL PER
E. amarillans E4668 Agrostis hyemalis Mixed ERV PER
E. baconii E1031, = ATCC 200745 Calamagrostis villosa Horizontal PER
E. brachyelytri E4804 Brachyelytrum erectum Mixed CC AcAP PER
E. bromicola E502 = ATCC 200750 Bromus erectus Horizontal
E. elymi E56 = ATCC 201551 Elymus virginicus Mixed CC PER
E. festucae E2368 Festuca rubra and Lolium Mixed ERV NFL (−)
giganteum (ascospore isolate)
E. festucae Fl1 Festuca trachyphylla Mixed ERV LTB PER
E. glyceriae E277 Glyceria striata Horizontal ERV AcAP (−)
E. “mollis” E3601 = AL9924 Holcus mollis Mixed ERV PER
E. poae E4646 Poa nemoralis Mixed (−)
E. poae E5819 Poa nemoralis Mixed ERV (−)
E. typhina E8 = ATCC 200736 Lolium perenne Horizontal PER
Neotyphodium aotearoae e899 = MYA-1229 Echinopogon ovatus Vertical TD NFL
N. chisosum e3609 = ATCC 64037 Achnatherum eminens Vertical NFL PER
N. coenophialum e19 = ATCC 90664 Lolium arundinaceum Vertical ERV NFL PER
N. coenophialum e4163 Lolium sp. (4×) Vertical ERV TD NFL PER
N. funkii e4096 Achnatherum robustum Vertical CC TD PER
N. gansuense var. inebrians e818 = MYA-1228 Achnatherum inebrians Vertical LAH
N. gansuense e7080 Achnatherum inebrians Vertical PAX
N. uncinatum e167 = CBS 102646 Lolium pratense Vertical NFL
a

Strains listed with ATCC and MYA prefixes are in the American Type Culture Collection. CBS = Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

b

Abbreviations: AcAP = 1-acetamidopyrrolizidine, CC = chanoclavine, EN = ergonovine, ERV = ergovaline, LAA = lysergic acid amide, LAH = lysergic acid α-hydroxyethylamide, LTB = lolitrem B, NANL = N-acetylnorloline, NFL = N-formylloline, nt=not tested, PAX = paxilline, PER = per-amine, TD = terpendoles. – = none detected. (−) indicates perA-ΔR* locus (see text).