Season and Tissue Type Affect Fungal Endophyte Communities of the Indian Medicinal Plant Tinospora cordifolia More Strongly than Geographic Location

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 388-398

  Mishra, Ashish ^a   Gond, Surendra K ^a   Kumar, Anuj ^b   Sharma, Vijay K ^a   Verma, Satish K ^a   Kharwar, Ravindra N ^a   Sieber, Thomas N ^c  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Department of Botany   (India)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BACTERIAL SPORE; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM; ENDOPHYTE; FUNGUS; GENETICS; HUMAN; INDIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEDICINAL PLANT; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TINOSPORA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ASCOMYCOTA; ECOSYSTEM; ENDOPHYTES; FUNGI; HUMANS; INDIA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT STEMS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TINOSPORA;

ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS SYDOWII; ASPERGILLUS TUBINGENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOTRYOSPHAERIA RHODINA; CHAETOMIUM; CHAETOMIUM GLOBOSUM; CLADOSPORIUM; COCHLIOBOLUS LUNATUS; COLLETOTRICHUM; COLLETOTRICHUM CRASSIPES; COLLETOTRICHUM LINICOLA; CURVULARIA; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; GUIGNARDIA; PENICILLIUM; TINOSPORA CORDIFOLIA;

EID: 84864352949     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-012-0029-7     Document Type: Article

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