Unraveling the dark septate endophyte functions: Insights from the arabidopsis model

Advances in Endophytic Research

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 115-141

  Mandyam, Keerthi ^a   Jumpponen, Ari ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-1575-2_6     Document Type: Chapter

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