Novel root fungal consortium associated with a dominant desert grass

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2805-2813

  Porras Alfaro, Andrea ^a   Herrera, Jose ^b   Sinsabaugh, Robert L ^a   Odenbach, Kylea J ^a   Lowrey, Timothy ^a   Natvig, Donald O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DNA SEQUENCES; ECOSYSTEMS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; NUTRIENTS;

FUNGAL COMMUNITY; FUNGAL CONSORTIUM; MICROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

FUNGI;

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARID ENVIRONMENT; COLONIZATION; DESERT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENDOPHYTE; FUNGUS; GRASS; SEMIARID REGION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

AGARICALES; ARTICLE; BOUTELOUA GRACILIS; DESERT; DNA SEQUENCE; DROUGHT TOLERANCE; ECOSYSTEM; ENDOPHYTE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRASS; MYCORRHIZA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT ROOT; SAPROTROPH; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SORDARIALES; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; XYLARIALES;

BIODIVERSITY; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FUNGI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEW MEXICO; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; POACEAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; SEVILLETA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE; UNITED STATES;

AGARICALES; BLEPHARIDACHNE; BOUTELOUA GRACILIS; COPROPHILOUS; FUNGI; OTUS; PLEOSPORALES; SORDARIALES; XYLARIALES;

EID: 42149124372     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02769-07     Document Type: Article

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