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Distribution of Viruses Inhabiting Heterobasidion annosum in a Pine-Dominated Forest Plot in Southern Finland.
Microbial ecology - 1 Apr 2018
Hyder Rafiqul, Piri Tuula, Hantula Jarkko, Nuorteva Heikki, Vainio Eeva J
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the diversity and spatial distribution of viruses infecting strains of the root rot fungus Heterobasidion annosum collected from pine stumps at a heavily infected forest site. Four different partitiviruses were detected in 14 H. annosum isolates at the study site, constituting approximately 29% of all Heterobasidion isolates investigated (N = 48). Two of the viruses detected were new...
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