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Selected References

Bandyopadhyay, R., D.E. Frederickson, N.W. McLaren, G.N. Odvody, and M.L. Ryley. 1998. Ergot: A new disease threat to sorghum in the Americas and Australia. Plant Dis. 82:356-367. See also APSnet Feature Article: http://www.apsnet.org/online/feature/ergot/top.html

Bove, F.J. 1970. The Story of Ergot. S. Karger, NY.

Carefoot, G.L. and E.R. Sprott. 1967. Famine on the Wind. Rand McNally, Chicago, IL

Esser, K. and A. Düvell. 1984. Biotechnological exploitation of the ergot fungus (Claviceps purpurea). Process Biochemistry 19:142-149.

Hudler, G.W. 1998. Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

Johnston, W.J., C.T. Golob, J.W. Sitton, and T.R. Schultz. 1996. Effect of temperature and postharvest field burning of Kentucky bluegrass on germination of sclerotia of Claviceps purpurea. Plant Dis. 80:766-768.

Kren, V. and L. Cvak (eds.) Ergot: The Genus Claviceps (Kren, V. and Cvak, L., Eds.). 1999. Harwood Academic Publishers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Lorenz, K. 1979. Ergot on cereal grains. CRC Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition. 11: 311-354.

Mathre, D.E. (ed.). 1997. Compendium of Barley Diseases. 2^nd ed. APS Press, St. Paul, MN

Matossian, M.K. 1989. Poisons of the Past. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT

Puranik, S.B. and D.E. Mathre. 1971. Biology and control of ergot on male sterile wheat and barley. Phytopathology 61:1075-1080.

Rehacek, Z. and P. Sajdl. 1993. Ergot Alkaloids: Chemistry, Biological Effects, Biotechnology. Elsevier Publishers, NY

Schardl, C.L. and T.D. Phillips. 1997. Protective grass endophytes: where are they from and where are they going? Plant Dis. 81:430-438.

Schultz, T.R., W.J. Johnston, C.T. Golob, and J.D. Maguire. 1993. Control of ergot in Kentucky bluegrass seed production using fungicides. Plant Dis. 77:685-687.

Tudzynski, P. and J. Scheffer, J. 2004. Claviceps purpurea: molecular aspects of a unique pathogenic lifestyle. Molecular Plant Pathology 5:377-388.

Wood, G. and J.R. Goley Smith. 1982. Epidemiology of ergot disease (Claviceps purpurea) in open-flowering male sterile cereals. Ann. Appl. Biol. 100:73-82.

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