Antifungal Streptomyces spp. associated with the infructescences of Protea spp. in South Africa

Antifungal Streptomyces spp. associated with the infructescences of Protea spp. in South Africa

Common saprophytic fungi are seldom present in Protea infructescences, which is strange given the abundance of mainly dead plant tissue in this moist protected environment. We hypothesized that the absence of common saprophytic fungi in Protea infructescences could be due to a special symbiosis wher...

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Main Authors: Zander Human, Kyuho Moon, Munyung Bae, Z Wilhelm de Beer, Sangwon Cha, Michael J. Wingfield, Bernard Slippers, Dong-Chan Oh, Stephanus Nicolaas Venter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
Candida albicans
Sporothrix
Streptomyces
Antifungal
Protea
Fungichromin
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01657/full

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