Extensions to and modulation of defensive mutualism in grass endophytes

Defensive Mutualism in Microbial Symbiosis

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 301-317

  Bultman, Thomas L ^a   Sullivan, Terrence J ^a   Cortez, Michael H ^b   Pennings, Timothy J ^a   Andersen, Janet L ^a  

^a HOPE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

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