Fungal root endophytes

Plant Roots: The Hidden Half, Fourth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 631-680

  Sieber, Thomas N ^a   Grünig, Christoph R ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MICROSYNTH AG   (Switzerland)

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