Fungi and leaf surfaces

Biocomplexity of Plant-Fungal Interactions

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 131-154

  Shepherd, Ryan W ^a   Wagner, George J ^b  

^a PhylloTech LLC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial surfaces of plants, complex plant microorganism interface; Bacterial bioreporters, insights into leaf surface environment; Fungi and leaf surfaces; Fungi from leaf surfaces, using cultivation based isolation; Leaf surfaces as fungal habitat; Leaf surfaces, adaxial and abaxial, as flat planar expanses; Phylloplane, first point of contact biochemical defense; Phylloplane, novel biochemistry from diverse structural adaptations; Plant secretions, interacting with defensive signaling pathways; Trichome secreted biochemicals on phylloplane

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871674166     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118314364.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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