Comparisons of ectomycorrhizal colonization of transgenic American chestnut with those of the wild type, a conventionally bred hybrid, and related Fagaceae species

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 100-108

  D'Amico, Katherine M ^a,b   Horton, Thomas R ^a   Maynard, Charles A ^a   Stehman, Stephen V ^a   Oakes, Allison D ^a   Powell, William A ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b ROBERT W HOLLEY CENTER FOR AGRICULTURE AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; DNA SEQUENCES; FORESTRY; FRUITS; GENE ENCODING; GENES; LAND USE; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OXALIC ACID; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLYMORPHISM; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS;

BLIGHT RESISTANCE; COLONIZATION RATE; ECTOMYCORRHIZAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; LAND USE HISTORY; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISMS;

FUNGI;

BIOASSAY; COLONIZATION; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DOMINANCE; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; GENETIC VARIATION; LAND USE; NUT; PATHOGEN; SOIL TYPE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

FORESTS; GENES; GREENHOUSE GASES; SOIL;

NORTH AMERICA;

AESCULUS HYBRIDA; CASTANEA DENTATA; CRYPHONECTRIA PARASITICA; FAGACEAE; FUNGI;

FUNGAL DNA; OXALATE OXIDASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FAGACEAE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCORRHIZA; PLANT ROOT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

DNA, FUNGAL; FAGACEAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCORRHIZAE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84917692846     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02169-14     Document Type: Article

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