Isolation and characterization of the grain mold fungi Cochliobolus and Alternaria spp. from sorghum using semiselective media and DNA sequence analyses

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 87-96

  Funnell Harris, Deanna L ^a   Prom, Louis K ^b   Pedersen, Jeffrey F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN PLAINS AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternaria; Cochliobolus; Fusarium; Semiselective media; Sorghum bicolor

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; POLYGALACTURONASE;

AGAR; CROP PRODUCTION; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; GROWTH RATE; INOCULATION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; ROOT SYSTEM; SEEDLING; SHOOT; SORGHUM; SPORE;

ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; ARTICLE; BIPOLARIS SORGHICOLA; COCHLIOBOLUS; COCHLIOBOLUS LUNATA; CONIDIUM; CURVULARIA SORGHINA; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM THAPSINUM; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; MOULD; MYCELIAL GROWTH; MYCELIUM; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEED INOCULATION; SHOOT; SORGHUM;

ALTERNARIA; ASCOMYCOTA; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, FUNGAL; PLANT ROOTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SORGHUM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84874718358     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: 14803275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjm-2012-0649     Document Type: Article

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