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Thomas L. Bultman Professor of Biology

Bultman, T.L., G. Bell*, and W. Martin.* 2004. A fungal endophyte mediates reversal of wound-induced resistance and constrains tolerance in a grass. Ecology 85:679-685.
Bultman, T.L., C. Pulas*, L. Grant*, G. Bell*, T.J. Sullivan. 2006. Effects of endophytic fungal isolate and plant cultivar on host preference by two insect herbivore species. Environmental Entomology 35:1690-1695.
Sullivan, T.J., J. Rodstom, J. Vandop, J. Librizzi, C. Graham, C. L. Schardl, and T. L. Bultman. 2007. Symbiont-mediated changes in defensive strategy in the invasive grass Lolium arundinaceum: evidence from changes in gene expression and foliar elemental composition. New Phytologist 176:673-679.
Bultman, T.L. and D.J. DeWitt*. 2008. Effect of an Invasive Ground Cover Plant on the Abundance and Diversity of a Forest Floor Spider Assemblage. Biological Invasions. 10:749-756.
Gonthier*, D.J., T.J. Sullivan, K.L. Brown, B. Wurtzel*, R. Lawal*, K. VandenOever*, Z. Buchan*, T.L. Bultman. 2008. Stroma-forming endophyte Epichlo� glyceriae provides wound-inducible resistance to its grass host. Oikos 177:629-633.
Bultman, T.L. and A. Leuchtmann. 2008. Biology of the Epichlo�-Botanophila Interaction: an Intriguing Association between Fungi and Insects. Fungal Biology Reviews 22:131-138.

Simons*, L., T.L. Bultman, and T.J. Sullivan. 2008. Effects of Methyl Jasmonate and an Endophytic Fungus on Plant Resistance to Insect Herbivores. Journal of Chemical Ecology 34:1511-1517.

Swarthout, D., E. Harper*, S. Judd*, D. Gonthier*, T. Stowe, and T. Bultman. 2009. Water-use efficiency and photosynthesis in drought-stressed endophyte-infected and non-infected K-31 tall fescue grasses. Environmental and Experimental Botany 66: 88-93.
Bultman, T.L., J.L. Rodstrom*, K.R. Radabaugh*, J.D. VanDop*, J.M. Librizzi*, L.L. Longwell*, C. Pulas*, L. Grant*, and T. J. Sullivan. 2009. Influence of genetic variation in fungal endophyte of a grass on an herbivore and its parasitoid. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 130: 173-180.
BookChapters
Bultman, T.L., T.J. Sullivan, M.H. Cortez, and T. Pennings. 2009. Extensions to and Modulation of Defensive Mutualism in Grass Endophytes. in press. Defensive Mutualism in Symbiotic Associations. Torres, M. and White, J.F., Jr. (Eds.). Taylor & Francis Publ.

* denotes undergraduate student

Phone: 616-395-7372
Fax: 616-395-7125
E-mail: bultmant@hope.edu
Office: Science Center 2027

Monday and Thursday 9:00-10:00 a.m.