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Claviceps purpurea var. spartinae

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/301286605.pdf, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claviceps_purpurea, http://spartina.org/referencemtrl/Fisher_etal_PlantDis_2007.pdf

Molecular biology has not confirmed this hypothesis but has distinguished three groups differing in their ecological specificity. C. purpurea spartinae is representative G3 — salt marsh grasses (Spartina, Distichlis). Spartina marshes were sampled and discovered to have ergot infections in the San Francisco Estuary and Pacific Coast.

Ergoline alkaloids

beta-tubulin intron 3 region (for Claviceps species differentiation)

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