Fungal endophyte assemblages from ethnopharmaceutically important medicinal trees

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 427-435

  Tejesvi, Mysore V ^a   Mahesh, Basavanna ^a   Nalini, Monnanda S ^a   Prakash, Harishchandra S ^a   Kini, Kukkundoor R ^a   Subbiah, Ven ^b   Shetty, Hunthrike S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE   (India)

^b Phytomyco Research Pvt Ltd   (India)

Author keywords

Bark; Endophytes; Medicinal trees; Southern India

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; FUNGI; MEDICINE; MICROORGANISMS; PLANTS (BOTANY); TISSUE;

BARK; ENDOPHYTES; MEDICINAL TREES; SOUTHERN INDIA;

DRUG PRODUCTS PLANTS;

ENDOPHYTE; FUNGUS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; MEDICINAL PLANT; TAXONOMY;

AEGLE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; AZADIRACHTA INDICA; BARK; BUTEA; CHAETOMIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEUTEROMYCETES; ENDOPHYTE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUSARIUM; HOLARRHENA; INDIA; MEDICINAL PLANT; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINALIA; TERMINALIA CHEBULA; TREE; TRICHODERMA; VERTICILLIUM;

ASCOMYCOTA; AZADIRACHTA; INDIA; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; PLANT BARK; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS; TERMINALIA; TREES;

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; FUNGI; MEDICINE; MICROORGANISMS; PLANTS; TISSUE;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

ASCOMYCOTA; AZADIRACHTA INDICA; BUTEA MONOSPERMA; CHAETOMIUM; CRATAEVA MAGNA; FUNGI; FUNGI IMPERFECTI; FUSARIUM; HOLARRHENA ANTIDYSENTERICA; MYROTHECIUM; PESTALOTIOPSIS; TERMINALIA ARJUNA; TERMINALIA CHEBULA; TRICHODERMA;

EID: 33746621693     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/W05-143     Document Type: Article

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