Quantification of the biocontrol agent Trichoderma harzianum with real-time TaqMan PCR and its potential extrapolation to the hyphal biomass

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 101, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2888-2891

  López Mondéjar, Rubén ^a   Antón, Anabel ^a   Raidl, Stefan ^b   Ros, Margarita ^a   Pascual, José Antonio ^a  

^a RESEARCH GROUP ON QUALITY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hyphal biomass; ITS copies; Real time PCR; TaqMan probe; Trichoderma harzianum

Indexed keywords

BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOMASS MEASUREMENTS; CONTROL AGENT; EFFECTIVE TOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE; FUNGAL BIOMASS; ORGANIC SUBSTRATE; PHYTOPATHOGENIC FUNGI; REAL-TIME PCR; SOIL FUNGI; TAQMAN PROBE; TAQMAN PROBES; TRICHODERMA; TRICHODERMA HARZIANUM;

AMPLIFICATION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIOCONTROL; COPYING; EXTRAPOLATION; FUNGI; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PROBES; SOILS;

BIOMASS;

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOMASS; DNA; FUNGUS; HYDROLYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROBE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL BIOMASS; FUNGAL GENOME; HYPOCREA LIXII; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL MICROFLORA;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOMASS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; HYPHAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TAQ POLYMERASE; TRICHODERMA;

FUNGI; HYPOCREA LIXII; MYCELIUM (GENUS); TRICHODERMA;

EID: 73749084191     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2009.10.019     Document Type: Article

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