Bioactive endophytes warrant intensified exploration and conservation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Smith, Stephen A ^a   Tank, David C ^a   Boulanger, Lori Ann ^a   Bascom Slack, Carol A ^a   Eisenman, Kaury ^a   Kingery, David ^a   Babbs, Beatrice ^a   Fenn, Kathleen ^a   Greene, Joshua S ^a   Hann, Bradley D ^a   Keehner, Jocelyn ^a   Kelley Swift, Elizabeth G ^a   Kembaiyan, Vivek ^a   Lee, Sun Jin ^a   Li, Puyao ^a   Light, David Y ^a   Lin, Emily H ^a   Ma, Cong ^a   Moore, Emily ^a   Schorn, Michelle A ^a   Vekhter, Daniel ^a   Nunez, Percy V ^b   Strobel, Gary A ^c   Donoghue, Michael J ^a   Strobel, Scott A ^a   more..

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN ANTONIO ABAD DEL CUSCO   (Peru)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; FUNGAL RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOASSAY; BIOINFORMATICS; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPHYTE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FUNGUS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PARAGUAY; PERU; PHYLOGENY; PLANT;

FUNGI;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; PARAGUAY; PERU; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, FUNGAL;

EID: 52449084221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003052     Document Type: Article

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