Molecular Screening of Microorganisms Associated with Discolored Wood in Dead European Beech Trees Suffered from Extreme Drought Event Using Next Generation Sequencing
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Site and Sampling Methodology
2.2. DNA Extraction and Molecular Detection of Microbial Communities
2.3. Statistics
3. Results and Discussion
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Purahong, W.; Tanunchai, B.; Wahdan, S.F.M.; Buscot, F.; Schulze, E.-D. Molecular Screening of Microorganisms Associated with Discolored Wood in Dead European Beech Trees Suffered from Extreme Drought Event Using Next Generation Sequencing. Plants 2021, 10, 2092. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10102092
Purahong W, Tanunchai B, Wahdan SFM, Buscot F, Schulze E-D. Molecular Screening of Microorganisms Associated with Discolored Wood in Dead European Beech Trees Suffered from Extreme Drought Event Using Next Generation Sequencing. Plants. 2021; 10(10):2092. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10102092
Chicago/Turabian StylePurahong, Witoon, Benjawan Tanunchai, Sara Fareed Mohamed Wahdan, François Buscot, and Ernst-Detlef Schulze. 2021. "Molecular Screening of Microorganisms Associated with Discolored Wood in Dead European Beech Trees Suffered from Extreme Drought Event Using Next Generation Sequencing" Plants 10, no. 10: 2092. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10102092