PCR assay based on a microsatellite-containing locus for detection and quantification of Epichloe endophytes in grass tissue

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1543-1550

  Groppe, Kathleen ^a   Boller, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ACREMONIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BINDING SITE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TEMPLATE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GRASS; INFECTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BROMUS ERECTUS; EPICHLOE; FUNGI; NEOTYPHODIUM COENOPHIALUM; NEOTYPHODIUM LOLII;

EID: 0030949801     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.4.1543-1550.1997     Document Type: Article

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