New species of Fusarium associated with dieback of Spartina alterniflora in Atlantic salt marshes

Mycologia

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 806-819

  Elmer, Wade H ^a   Marra, Robert E ^a  

^a Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Fusarium palustre; Morphology; Pathology; Phylogeny; Smooth cordgrass; Sudden vegetation dieback

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; DIEBACK; FUNGUS; GRASS; GROWTH RATE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEW SPECIES; ONTOGENY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DECLINE; SALTMARSH; VIRULENCE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM INCARNATUM; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

CALMODULIN; FUNGAL DNA; TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS SPORE; FUSARIUM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; POACEAE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WETLAND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CALMODULIN; DNA, FUNGAL; FUSARIUM; GENES, FUNGAL; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT STEMS; POACEAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORES, FUNGAL; TUBULIN; WETLANDS;

EID: 80052553575     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/10-155     Document Type: Article

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