Potential verification of a host plant for the desert truffle Terfezia pfeilii by molecular methods

Mycological Research

Volumn 103, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1270-1274

  Kagan Zur, Varda ^a   Kuang, Jianbo ^a   Tabak, S ^a   Taylor, Frank W ^b   Roth Bejerano, Nurit ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Veld Products Research   (Botswana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA AMPLIFICATION; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; FUNGAL SPORE; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RIBOSOMAL RNA;

FUNGUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST USE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BASIDIOMYCOTA; CITRULLUS; CITRULLUS LANATUS VAR. LANATUS; CITRULLUS VULGARIS; FUNGI; TERFEZIA; TERFEZIA PFEILII; TUBER (GENUS); TUBER (TRUFFLE);

EID: 0033496504     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0953756299008448     Document Type: Article

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