Communities of endophytic fungi in medicinal plant Withania somnifera

Pakistan Journal of Botany

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1281-1287

  Khan, Rezwana ^a   Shahzad, Saleem ^a   Iqbal choudhary, M ^a   Khan, Shakeel A ^a   Ahmad, Aqeel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCOMYCOTA; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; FUNGI; FUNGI IMPERFECTI; WITHANIA SOMNIFERA;

EID: 77952894891     PISSN: 05563321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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