The symbiotic fungus Piriformospora indica: Review

Fungal Associations, 2nd Edition

Volumn 9, Issue , 2012, Pages 231-254

  Varma, A ^a   Sherameti, I ^b   Tripathi, S ^a   Prasad, R ^a   Das, A ^a   Sharma, M ^a   Bakshi, M ^a   Johnson, J M ^b   Bhardwaj, S ^a   Arora, M ^a   Rastogi, K ^a   Agrawal, A ^a   Kharkwal, A C ^a   Talukdar, S ^a   Bagde, U S ^c   Bisaria, V S ^d   Upadhyaya, C P ^e   Won, P S ^f   Chen, Y ^g   Ma, J ^g   Lou, B ^g   Adya, A ^h   Zhang, L ⁱ   Meghvansi, M K ^j   Sree, K S ^a   Gosal, S K ^k   Srivastava, R B ^l   Johri, A K ^m   Kumar, M ^m   Dua, M ^m   Cruz, C ⁿ   Oelmuller R ^b   more..

^a AMITY UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI   (India)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^e GURU GHASIDAS UNIVERSITY   (India)

^f Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^g ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^j DRDO   (India)

^k PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^l Ministry of Defence   (India)

^m JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30826-0_13     Document Type: Chapter

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