The unresolved ecophysiological significance of Dark Septate Endophytes (DSE) may be in part due to existence of morphologically indistinguishable cryptic species in the most common Phialocephala fortinii s. l.--Acephala applanata species complex (PAC). We inoculated three middle European forest plants (European blueberry, Norway spruce and silver birch) with 16 strains of eight PAC cryptic spe...

The draft genome sequences of Klebsiella variicola strain KV321, which was isolated from rhizosphere soil of Pisolithus tinctorius-Eucalyptus mycorrhiza, are reported here. The genome sequences contain genes involved in ABC transporter function in multiple-antibiotic drug resistance and colonization. This genomic analysis will help understand the genomic basis of K. variicola virulence genes an...

Phytophthora-infected plants. These results suggest some diversity in the chitinase activities concerning New chitosanase acidic isoforms have been shown in substrate specificity in mycorrhizal plants. The Glomus mosseae-colonized tomato roots and their possible implications of these observations in the induction, together with the previously described functioning of the symbiosis is discussed....