In-planta detection and monitorization of endophytic colonization by a Beauveria bassiana strain using a new-developed nested and quantitative PCR-based assay and confocal laser scanning microscopy

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 128-138

  Landa, B B ^a   Lopez Diaz C ^b   Jimenez Fernandez D ^b   Montes Borrego, M ^a   Munoz Ledesma F J ^c   Ortiz Urquiza, A ^b   Quesada Moraga, E ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE AGRICULTURA SOSTENIBLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^c ALCALIBER I+D+i SLU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic infection; Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Detection limit; Fungal endophytes; Papaver somniferum

Indexed keywords

CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; IRAELLA LUTEIPES; PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; BEAUVERIA; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FUNGAL ENDOPHYTES; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PAPAVER; PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WASP;

ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; DETECTION LIMIT; FUNGAL ENDOPHYTES; PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM;

ANIMALS; BEAUVERIA; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PAPAVER; PLANT DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WASPS;

EID: 84881013847     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: 10960805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2013.06.007     Document Type: Article

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