W1193: Locoweed and its Fungal Endophyte: Impact, Ecology, and Management

(Multistate Research Project)

Status: Inactive/Terminating

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12/15/2015

None for the time period covered

01/04/2017

Cook, D., Gardner, D. R., Lee, S. T., Pfister, J. A., Stonecipher, C. A., & Welsh, S. L. (2016). A swainsonine survey of North American Astragalus and Oxytropis taxa implicated as locoweeds. Toxicon, 118, 104-111.

Pfister, J. A., Cook, D., Panter, K. E., Welch, K. D., & James, L. F. (2016). USDA-ARS Poisonous Plant Research Laboratory: History and Current Research on Western North American Rangelands. Rangelands, 38(5), 241-249.

Cook, D., Gardner, D. R., Roper, J. M., Ransom, C. V., Pfister, J. A., & Panter, K. E. (2016). Fungicide treatment and clipping of Oxytropis sericea does not disrupt swainsonine concentrations. Toxicon, 122, 26-30.

11/28/2017

Publications: No group publications. However, publications on the topic by collaborations and by members during 2017 are listed below.

Alhawatema, M., Sayed, Cook, D., Creamer, R. 2107. RNAi-mediated down regulation of a melanin polyketide synthase (pks 1) gene in the fungus Slafractonia leguminicola. World J. Microbiol. Biotech. 33:179.

Cook, D., Donzelli, B.G.G., Creamer, R., Baucom, D. L., Gardner, D.R., Pan, J., Moore, N., Krasnoff, S.B., Jaromczyk, J.W., Schardl, C.L. 2017. Swainsonine biosynthesis genes in diverse symbiotic and pathogenic fungi. G3:Genes, Genomes,Genetics 7:1791-1797.

Cook, D., Gardner, D.R., Martinez, A., Robles, C.A., Pfister, J.A. 2017. Screening for swainsonine among south American Astragalus species. Toxicon 139: 54

Cook, D., Gardner, D.R., Welch, K.D., Allen, J.G. 2017. A survey of swainsonine content in Swainsona species. The Rangeland Journal 39:213-218.

Lu, H., Quan, H., Zhou, Q., Ren, Zhenhui, Xue, R., Zhao, B., Creamer, R. 2017. Endogenous fungi isolated from three locoweed species from rangeland in western China. Afr. J. Microbiol. Res. 11:155-170.

11/28/2017

Publications: No group publications. However, publications on the topic by collaborations and by members during 2017 are listed below:

Cook, D., Gardner, D.R., Martinez, A., Robles, C.A., Pfister, J.A. 2017. Screening for swainsonine among south American Astragalus species. Toxicon 139: 54

Cook, D., Gardner, D.R., Welch, K.D., Allen, J.G. 2017. A survey of swainsonine content in Swainsona species. The Rangeland Journal 39:213-218.

12/11/2018

Publications: No group publications. However, publications on the topic by collaborations and by members during 2018 are listed below.

Noor, A.I., Nava, A., Cooke, P. Cook, D. Creamer, R. 2018. Evidence of non-pathogenic relationship of Alternaria section Undifilum endophytes within three host locoweed plant species. Botany 96:187-200.

Harrison, J.G., Parchman, T.L., Cook, D., Gardner, D.R., Forister, M.L. 2018. A heritable symbiont and host-associated factors shape fungal endophyte communities across spatial scales. Journal of Ecology. 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12967.

Cook, D., Gardner, D.R., Martinez, A., Robles, C., Pfister, J.A. 2018. A screen for swainsonine among South American Astragalus species. Toxicon. 139:54-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.toxicon.2017.09.014.

12/11/2019

No group publications. However, publications on the topic by collaborations and by members during 2019 are listed below.

Martinez, A., Robles, C., Roper, J.M., Gardner, D.R., Neyaz, M., Joelson, N., Cook, D. 2019. Detection of swainsonine-producing endophytes in Patagonian Astragalus species. Toxicon. 117:1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.toxicon.2019.09.020.

Cook, D., Lee, S.T., Panaccione, D.G., Leadmon, C.E., Clay, K., Gardner, D.R. 2019. Biodiversity of Convolvulaceous species that contain ergot alkaloids, indole diterpene alkaloids, and swainsonine. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology. 86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bse.2019.103921.