Genome sizes of Epichloe species and anamorphic hybrids

Mycologia

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 776-782

  Kuldau, Gretchen A ^a,c   Tsai, Huei Fung ^b,c   Schardl, Christopher L ^c  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clavicipitaceae; Electrophoretic karyotype; Grass endophytes; Heteroploidy; Hypocreales; Neotyphodium

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL GENETICS;

ASCOMYCOTA; CLAVICIPITACEAE; EMBRYOPHYTA; EPICHLOE; EPICHLOE FESTUCAE; EPICHLOE TYPHINA; HYPOCREALES; LOLIUM PERENNE; NEOTYPHODIUM; NEOTYPHODIUM COENOPHIALUM; NEOTYPHODIUM LOLII; POACEAE;

EID: 0032845102     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3761531     Document Type: Article

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