Spatial and Temporal Variation in Fungal Endophyte Communities Isolated from Cultivated Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Ek Ramos, María J ^a   Zhou, Wenqing ^a   Valencia, César U ^a   Antwi, Josephine B ^a   Kalns, Lauren L ^a   Morgan, Gaylon D ^b   Kerns, David L ^a,c   Sword, Gregory A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ACREMONIUM ALTERNATUM; ALTERNARIA; ARTHROBOTRYS DACTYLOIDES; ARTICLE; CLADOSPORIUM CLADOSPORIOIDES; COLLETOTRICHUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRECHSLERELLA DACTYLOIDES; ENDOPHYTE; EPICOCCUM NIGRUM; EXSEROHILUM ROSTRATUM; FARMING SYSTEM; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENUS; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; MICROMORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAECILOMYCES; PHOMOPSIS; PLANT TISSUE; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UNITED STATES; VARIETAS;

DNA, FUNGAL; ENDOPHYTES; FUNGI; GOSSYPIUM; PLANT LEAVES;

ACREMONIUM ALTERNATUM; ALTERNARIA; CHAETOMIUM GLOBOSUM; CLADOSPORIUM CLADOSPORIOIDES; COLLETOTRICHUM; DRECHSLERELLA DACTYLOIDES; EPICOCCUM NIGRUM; EXSEROHILUM ROSTRATUM; FUNGI; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HEXAPODA; PAECILOMYCES SP.; PHOMOPSIS;

EID: 84878949118     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066049     Document Type: Article

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