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Irja Saar

Researcher Next ID · RN-016143

Researcher · Agricultural and Biological Sciences

University of Tartu

, Estonia

Not currently recruitingFunding unknown
Works count
80
Citation count
10,802
H-index
21
i10-index
31

Research interests

Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Medicine
Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
Lichen and fungal ecology
Fungal Biology and Applications
Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies

Publications

  • The UNITE database for molecular identification and taxonomic communication of fungi and other eukaryotes: sequences, taxa and classifications reconsidered

    Nucleic Acids Research · 2023 · 10.1093/nar/gkad1039

  • The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi: handling dark taxa and parallel taxonomic classifications

    Nucleic Acids Research · 2018 · 10.1093/nar/gky1022

  • Towards a unified paradigm for sequence‐based identification of fungi

    Molecular Ecology · 2013 · 10.1111/mec.12481

  • 454 Pyrosequencing and Sanger sequencing of tropical mycorrhizal fungi provide similar results but reveal substantial methodological biases

    New Phytologist · 2010 · 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03373.x

  • Strong host preference of ectomycorrhizal fungi in a Tasmanian wet sclerophyll forest as revealed by DNA barcoding and taxon‐specific primers

    New Phytologist · 2008 · 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02561.x

Current projects

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