The microbe-free plant: Fact or artifact?

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 2, Issue DEC, 2011, Pages

  Partida Martínez, Laila P ^a   Heil, Martin ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Clavicipitaceous endophyte; Extended phenotype; Mycorrhiza; Non clavicipitaceous endophyte; Pathogen; Plant associated microbe; Plant microbe interaction; Rhizobia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860698880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2011.00100     Document Type: Review

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