Diversity of fungi associated with plants growing in geothermal ecosystems and evaluation of their capacities to enhance thermotolerance of host plants

Journal of Plant Interactions

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 305-314

  Zhou, Wen Na ^a   White, James F ^b   Soares, Marcos A ^c   Torres, Mónica S ^b   Zhou, Zuo Ping ^a   Li, Hai Yan ^a  

^a KUNMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Diversity; Endophyte; Geothermal ecosystem; Heat adaptation; Stress tolerance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983527167     PISSN: 17429145     EISSN: 17429153     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17429145.2015.1101495     Document Type: Article

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