Studying the brown desert truffles of Israel

Israel Journal of Plant Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 309-314

  Kagan Zur, Varda ^a   Roth Bejerano, Nurit ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cryptic species; Determinants of mycorrhizal types; Life cycle; Terfezia boudieri

Indexed keywords

DESERT; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HABITAT SELECTION; LABORATORY METHOD; LIFE CYCLE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; PEPTIDE; PHYLOGENETICS;

ASCOMYCOTA; TERFEZIA; TERFEZIA BOUDIERI; TUBER (TRUFFLE);

EID: 68549117097     PISSN: 07929978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1560/IJPS.56.4.309     Document Type: Article

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