Use of pyrosequencing to quantify incidence of a specific Aspergillus flavus strain within complex fungal communities associated with commercial cotton crops

Phytopathology

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 282-288

  Das, Modan K ^a   Ehrlich, Kenneth C ^b   Cotty, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biocontrol; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; CHEMISTRY; COTTON; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; DNA, FUNGAL; GOSSYPIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; MICROPUS;

EID: 40849121131     PISSN: 0031949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PHYTO-98-3-0282     Document Type: Article

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