Endophytic fungi: A source of novel biologically active secondary metabolites

Mycological Research

Volumn 106, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 996-1004

  Schulz, Barbara ^a   Boyle, Christine ^a   Draeger, Siegfried ^a   Römmert, Anne Katrin ^a   Krohn, Karsten ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTOPE; ENDOPHYTE; FUNGUS; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; SECONDARY METABOLITE;

FUNGI; LARIX;

EID: 0036753195     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0953756202006342     Document Type: Review

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