Negative effects on survival and performance of Norway spruce seedlings colonized by dark septate root endophytes are primarily isolate-dependent

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2508-2517

  Tellenbach, Christoph ^a,b   Grünig, Christoph R ^a   Sieber, Thomas N ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; ENDOPHYTE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT ROOT; SEEDLING; SPRUCE; VIRULENCE;

ASCOMYCOTA; DNA, FUNGAL; ENDOPHYTES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; PICEA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT ROOTS; SEEDLING; VIRULENCE;

ACEPHALA APPLANATA; CONIFEROPHYTA; ERICACEAE; FUNGI; PHIALOCEPHALA FORTINII; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 80052609446     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02523.x     Document Type: Article

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