Defensive mutualism and grass endophytes: Still valid after all these years?

Defensive Mutualism in Microbial Symbiosis

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 9-20

  Clay, Keith ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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