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A toxic endophyte-infected grass helps reverse degradation and loss of biodiversity of over-grazed grasslands in northwest China

Overgrazing of China’s grasslands is increasingly causing biodiversity to decline. In degenerated grasslands of northwest China endophyte (Epichloё gansuensis) infected Achnatherum inebrians (drunken horse grass) is becoming widely distributed because of its toxicity to livestock. In this study, we...

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Autores principales: Yao, Xiang, Christensen, Michael J., Bao, Gensheng, Zhang, Chunping, Li, Xiuzhang, Li, Chunjie, Nan, Zhibiao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4683511/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26679518
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep18527