Non-systemic fungal endophytes in Carex brevicollis may influence the toxicity of the sedge to livestock
| dc.contributor.author | Canals Tresserras, Rosa María | |
| dc.contributor.author | San Emeterio Garciandía, Leticia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sánchez Márquez, Salud | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ruiz de los Mozos Aliaga, Igor | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pujol, Pablo | |
| dc.contributor.author | Zabalgogeazcoa, Iñigo | |
| dc.contributor.department | Nekazaritza Ekoizpena | eu |
| dc.contributor.department | Producción Agraria | es_ES |
| dc.contributor.department | IdAB. Instituto de Agrobiotecnología / Agrobioteknologiako Institutua | es_ES |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-10-02T07:57:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-10-02T07:57:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The sedge Carex brevicollis is a common component of semi-natural grasslands and forests in temperate mountains of Central and Southern Europe. The consumption of this species causes a severe toxicity to livestock, associated to high plant concentrations of the β-carbolic alkaloid brevicolline. This research was started to ascertain the origin of this toxicity. An exploratory survey of alkaloid content in plants growing in contrasting habitats (grasslands/forests) did not contribute to find a pattern of the variable contents of brevicolline in plants, and led us to address other possibilities, such as a potential role of fungal endophytism. Systemic, vertically-transmitted endophytes producers of herbivore-deterrent alkaloids are known to infect many known forage grasses. We did not detect systemic endophytes in C. brevicollis, but the sedge harboured a rich community of non-systemic fungi. To test experimentally whether non-systemic endophytes influenced the synthesis of the alkaloid, 24 plants were submitted to a fungicide treatment to remove the fungal assemblage, and the offspring ramets were analysed for alkaloid content. Brevicolline was the major β-carbolic alkaloid detected, and the contents were at least five times lower in the new ramets that developed from fungicide-treated plants than in the untreated plants. This result, although not conclusive about the primary source of the alkaloid (a plant or a fungal product) indicates that fungal endophytes may affect the contents of the toxic brevicolline in this sedge. | en |
| dc.format.extent | 10 p. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.5424/sjar/2014123-5219 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1695-971X (Print) | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2171-9292 (Electronic) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/30875 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en |
| dc.publisher | Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA) | es_ES |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research, 2014 12(3): 623-632 | en |
| dc.relation.publisherversion | https://doi.org/10.5424/sjar/2014123-5219 | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Atribución 3.0 España (CC BY 3.0 ES) | en |
| dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/deed.es/ | |
| dc.subject | Livestock toxicity | en |
| dc.subject | Alkaloid | en |
| dc.subject | Brevicolline | en |
| dc.subject | Fungal endophyte | en |
| dc.subject | Plant-endophyte interaction | en |
| dc.title | Non-systemic fungal endophytes in Carex brevicollis may influence the toxicity of the sedge to livestock | en |
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