Endophytic fungal communities associated with vascular plants in the high arctic zone are highly diverse and host-plant specific

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Tao ^a,b   Yao, Yi Feng ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL BIOTECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BASIDIOMYCETES; CAPNODIALES; CASSIOPE TETRAGONA; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENDOPHYTIC FUNGUS; FILOBASIDIELLA; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; HELOTIALES; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HOST RANGE; LEPTOSPHAERIA; MELAMPSORA; MRAKIA; MYCOPAPPUS; NONHUMAN; PHAEOSPHAERIA; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STEM; PLEOSPORALES; PYROSEQUENCING; RHIZOSPHAERA; SAXIFRAGA CESPITOSA; SAXIFRAGA OPPOSITIFOLIA; SILENE ACAULIS; TETRACLADIUM; TREMELLALES; VASCULAR PLANT; VENTURIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ENDOPHYTE; FUNGUS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; CAPNODIALES; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; CRYPTOCOCCUS (TREMELLALES); CRYPTOCOCCUS (TREMELLOMYCETIDAE); CRYPTOCOCCUS (TRICHOSPORONALES); FUNGI; HELOTIALES; LEPTOSPHAERIA; MELAMPSORA; MRAKIA; OTUS; PHAEOSPHAERIA; PLEOSPORALES; RHIZOSPHAERA; TETRACLADIUM; TRACHEOPHYTA; TREMELLALES; VENTURIA (FUNGUS);

ARCTIC REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; ENDOPHYTES; FUNGI; HOST SPECIFICITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84936131856     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130051     Document Type: Article

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