Evidence of symbiosis between the soil yeast cryptococcus laurentii and a sclerophyllous medicinal shrub, agathosma betulina (berg.) pillans

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 624-632

  Cloete, Karen J ^a   Valentine, Alexander J ^b   Stander, Marietjie A ^a   Blomerus, Louisa M ^c   Botha, Alfred ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; POLYAMINE; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; CRYPTOCOCCUS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; RUTACEAE; SYMBIOSIS;

CRYPTOCOCCUS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; PLANT ROOTS; POLYAMINES; RUTACEAE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

AGATHOSMA BETULINA; CRYPTOCOCCUS LAURENTII;

EID: 65049086301     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-008-9457-9     Document Type: Article

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