Mutualism effectiveness and vertical transmission of symbiotic fungal endophytes in response to host genetic background

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 838-849

  Gundel, Pedro E ^a,b   Martínez Ghersa, María A ^a   Omacini, Marina ^a   Cuyeu, Romina ^c   Pagano, Elba ^c   Ríos, Raúl ^c   Ghersa, Claudio M ^a  

^a IFEVA Facultad de Agronomía UBA CONICET   (Argentina)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c Instituto de Genética Ewald A Favret Castelar INTA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Environmental stress; Genetic specificity; Grass endophyte interaction; Hybrid vigor; Transmission efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871710561     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2012.00261.x     Document Type: Article

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