A new fungal endophyte, Scolecobasidium humicola, promotes tomato growth under organic nitrogen

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Mahmoud, Rola S ^a   Narisawa, Kazuhiko ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; ORGANIC NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOPHYTE; FUNGAL STRUCTURES; FUNGUS; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT ROOT; SCOLECOBASIDIUM HUMICOLA; SCREENING; SEEDLING; TOMATO;

AMINO ACIDS; ASCOMYCOTA; BIOMASS; ENDOPHYTES; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HYPHAE; LEUCINE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PHENYLALANINE; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLANT ROOTS; SEEDLING; SYMBIOSIS; VALINE;

EID: 84891405529     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078746     Document Type: Article

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