A PCR-based technique for detection of Neotyphodium endophytes in diverse accessions of tall fescue

Plant Disease

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 738-740

  Doss, Robert P ^a,b   Clement, Stephen L ^a   Kuy, Srey Reath ^a   Welty, Ronald E ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acremonium; Festuca arundinacea

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM DETECTION; BASE PAIRING; FESCUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMER DNA; TISSUE CULTURE;

NEOTYPHODIUM COENOPHIALUM;

EID: 0031694946     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS.1998.82.7.738     Document Type: Article

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