Culturing and direct PCR suggest prevalent host generalism among diverse fungal endophytes of tropical forest grasses

Mycologia

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 247-260

  Higgins, K Lindsay ^a   Coley, Phyllis D ^a   Kursar, Thomas A ^a   Arnold, A Elizabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascomycota; Barro colorado island; Diversity; Endophytes; Environmental sampling; Internal transcribed spacer; Poaceae; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ENDOPHYTE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST EDGE; FUNGAL DISEASE; GENERALIST; GRASS; HABITAT USE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLING; TROPICAL FOREST; UNDERSTORY; WOODLAND;

BARRO COLORADO ISLAND; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; PANAMA [PANAMA (NTN)];

ASCOMYCOTA; CLAVICIPITACEAE; FUNGI; POACEAE;

FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; FUNGUS; GENETICS; HOST RANGE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIOSIS; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BIODIVERSITY; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGI; HOST SPECIFICITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POACEAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIOSIS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 79955972430     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/09-158     Document Type: Article

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