High-throughput culturing of fungi from plant litter by a dilution-to-extinction technique

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 521-533

  Collado, Javier ^a   Platas, Gonzalo ^a   Paulus, Barbara ^b   Bills, Gerald F ^a  

^a Medical affairs Merck sharp and Dohme ltd   (Spain)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Automation; Diversity index; Elaeocarpus dentatus; New Zealand; Particle filtration; Rarefaction

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

CULTIVATION; DIVERSITY INDEX; EXTINCTION; FUNGUS; LITTER; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AGAR MEDIUM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; FILTRATION; FUNGUS; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT LITTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TISSUE CULTURE; TREE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BIODIVERSITY; CULTURE MEDIA; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ELAEOCARPACEAE; FUNGI; INDICATOR DILUTION TECHNIQUES; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; NEW ZEALAND; PLANT LEAVES; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ELAEOCARPUS DENTATUS; FUNGI; UNCULTURED BACTERIUM;

EID: 34249045080     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2007.00294.x     Document Type: Article

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