Species richness analysis and ITS rDNA phylogeny revealed the majority of cultivable foliar endophytes from beech (Fagus sylvatica)

Fungal Ecology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 366-378

  Unterseher, Martin ^a   Schnittler, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apiognomonia errabunda; Ascomycota; Dilution to extinction cultivation; Foliar forest endophytes; Induced mutualism; Isaria farinosa; ITS phylogeny; Species richness estimators; Species accumulation curves

Indexed keywords

APIOGNOMONIA ERRABUNDA; ASCOMYCOTA; FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; ISARIA; PEZIZOMYCOTINA;

EID: 77956945290     PISSN: 17545048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

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