Specific PCR-primers as a reliable tool for the detection of white truffles in mycorrhizal roots

New Phytologist

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 511-516

  Mello, Antonietta ^a   Garnero, Lilia ^b   Bonfante, Paola ^a,b  

^a Ctro Stud sulla Micologia T   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Multiplex PCR; Nested PRC; PCR primers; Tuber borchii; Tuber magnatum

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMER DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

TUBER BORCHII; TUBER MAGNATUM;

EID: 0032911097     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.1999.00356.x     Document Type: Article

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