A new pair of primers designed for amplification of the ITS region in Tuber species

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 239-245

  Bertini, Luana ^a   Amicucci, Antonella ^a   Agostini, Deborah ^a   Polidori, Emanuela ^a   Potenza, Lucia ^a   Guidi, Chiara ^a   Stocchi, Vilberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ectomycorrhiza; Internal transcribed spacer amplification; Truffle identification; Tuber

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MYCORRHIZA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE;

ASCOMYCOTA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0033056207     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00082-8     Document Type: Article

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