Italian rye grass and a method of introducing endophytic fungi into an italian rye grass
AssigneeCorporate Juridicial Person Japan Grassland Farming & Forage Seed Association
InventorsNaoya Hiruma, Satoshi Shinozaki
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Abstract
To provide an Italian rye grass with excellent characteristics, and in particular, excellent insect resistance and disease resistance, an endophyte, which is a filamentous endophytic fungus living together with a wild plant occurring in nature, is isolated and artificially grown, and made to live symbiotically in Italian rye grass by inoculating and infecting the grass with the artificially grown endophyte.
Claims10
An Italian rye grass produced by artificially introducing isolated filamentous endophytic fungi Neotyphodium, Gliocladium or their strains into Lollium multiflorun or hybride of an Italian rye grass not containing filamentous endophytic fungi.
A method of introducing endophytic fungi into an Italian rye grass, comprising:
- a step for isolating filamentous endophytic fungi Neotyphodium, Gliocladium or their strains living naturally in a symbiotic relationship with a plant, and artificially growing said fungi,
- a step for artificially inoculating Lolium multiflorum or hybrids of an Italian rye grass with said artificially grown endophytic fungi, and
- a step for infecting said Italian rye grass with said artificially inoculated endophytic fungi by causing them to live symbiotically.
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