Microsatellite-Based Quantification Method to Estimate Biomass of Endophytic Phialocephala Species in Strain Mixtures

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 676-683

  Reininger, Vanessa ^a   Grünig, Christoph R ^a   Sieber, Thomas N ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BIOMASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCELIUM; MYCOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPRUCE;

ASCOMYCOTA; BIOMASS; DNA, FUNGAL; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MYCELIUM; MYCOLOGY; PICEA; PLANT ROOTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ACEPHALA APPLANATA; FUNGI; PHIALOCEPHALA FORTINII; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 79953746031     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-010-9798-z     Document Type: Article

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