Diversity, host, and habitat specificity of oomycete communities in declining reed stands (Phragmites australis) of a large freshwater lake

Mycological Research

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 689-696

  Nechwatal, Jan ^a   Wielgoss, Anna ^a   Mendgen, Kurt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ecology; Natural ecosystem; Phytophthora; Pythium; Reed dieback

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

FUNGUS; HABITAT SELECTION; HOST SPECIFICITY; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POPULATION DECLINE; REEDBED; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OAK; OOMYCETES; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; POACEAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIODIVERSITY; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FRESH WATER; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOMYCETES; PHYLOGENY; POACEAE; QUERCUS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BODENSEE; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

APHANOMYCES; OOMYCETES; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; PHYTOPHTHORA; PHYTOPHTHORA SP.; PYTHIUM;

EID: 44649087562     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: 14698102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mycres.2007.11.015     Document Type: Article

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