A new species of Epichloë symbiotic with Chinese grasses

Mycologia

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 560-570

  Li, Wei ^a   Ji, Yan Ling ^a   Yu, Han Shou ^a   Wang, Zhi Wei ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

E. yangzii; Host specificity; Interfertility tests; Morphology; Phylogenetic relationship; Roegneria kamoji

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR; TUBULIN;

ECOMORPHOLOGY; ENDOPHYTE; FUNGUS; GRASS; HOST SPECIFICITY; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS;

AGROPYRON; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLAVICEPS; GENETICS; GENOME; HISTOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

AGROPYRON; CLAVICEPS; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTORS; GENOME, FUNGAL; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS; TUBULIN;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

BOEHMERIA NIVEA; ELYMUS; ELYMUS ELYMI; EPICHLOE; EPICHLOE ELYMI; POACEAE; ROEGNERIA KAMOJI;

EID: 33751221890     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 00275514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/mycologia.98.4.560     Document Type: Article

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