Dilution-to-extinction cultivation of leaf-inhabiting endophytic fungi in beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) - Different cultivation techniques influence fungal biodiversity assessment

Mycological Research

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 645-654

  Unterseher, Martin ^a   Schnittler, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dilution to extinction cultivation; Foliar endophytic fungus; Particle filtration; Species richness estimator; Species accumulation curve

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CULTIVATION; DECIDUOUS TREE; DILUTION; ENDOPHYTE; FUNGUS; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBAN AREA;

ARTICLE; BEECH; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; FUNGUS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIODIVERSITY; DNA, FUNGAL; FAGUS; FUNGI; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; PLANT LEAVES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; GREIFSWALD; MECKLENBURG-WEST POMERANIA;

FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; FUNGI;

EID: 67349124387     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: 14698102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mycres.2009.02.002     Document Type: Article

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