High diversity of fungi associated with living parts of boreal forest bryophytes

Botany

Volumn 86, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1326-1333

  Kauserud, Håvard ^a   Mathiesen, Cecilie ^a   Ohlson, Mikael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Bryophytes; Endophytes; Environmental sampling; Moss; rRNA its sequence

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; DOMINANCE; ENDOPHYTE; FOREST FLOOR; FUNGUS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MOSS; PHYLOGENETICS; RNA; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

AGARICALES; ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CHAETOTHYRIALES; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; ENTOLOMA; FUNGI; GLOMEROMYCOTA; HELOTIALES; HYLOCOMIUM SPLENDENS; LOPHODERMIUM PICEAE; OTUS; PLEUROZIUM SCHREBERI; POLYTRICHUM COMMUNE; TREMELLALES;

EID: 56049112792     PISSN: 19162804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/B08-102     Document Type: Article

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