Molecular characterization of fungal endophytes from Calotropis procera plants in Taif region (Saudi Arabia) and their antifungal activities

Plant Biosystems

Volumn 148, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1085-1092

  Gherbawy, Y A ^a,b   Gashgari, R M ^c  

^a TAIF UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b SOUTH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Antifungal; Chaetomium; endophytes; internal transcribed spacer region; phylogentic

Indexed keywords

ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; APOCYNACEAE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; CALOTROPIS PROCERA; CHAETOMIUM; CHAETOMIUM GLOBOSUM; COCHLIOBOLUS LUNATUS; FUNGI; FUSARIUM DIMERUM; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; MYROTHECIUM VERRUCARIA; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; PYTHIUM ULTIMUM;

EID: 84918812570     PISSN: 11263504     EISSN: 17245575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2013.819043     Document Type: Article

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