Soil microbial community responses to the fungal endophyte Neotyphodium in Italian ryegrass

Plant and Soil

Volumn 340, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 347-355

  Casas, Cecilia ^a   Omacini, Marina ^a   Montecchia, Marcela Susana ^b   Correa, Olga Susana ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Universidad de Buenos Aires   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Above and below ground interactions; Aerial symbiosis; Lolium multiflorum; Neotyphodium endophytes; Soil fungi and bacteria

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; ENDOPHYTE; FUNGUS; GRASS; GROWING SEASON; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYTOMASS; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; LOLIUM; LOLIUM MULTIFLORUM; NEOTYPHODIUM; NEOTYPHODIUM OCCULTANS; POACEAE;

EID: 79951809163     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-010-0607-8     Document Type: Article

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