In order to test for fungal DNA presence in our samples, an initial
end point PCR was performed using the ITS1/4 primers which are
commonly used in various PCR-RFLP analyses (Borman et al., 2008;
Kizis et al., 2014; Levin, 2012). As illustrated in Fig. 1, an amplicon of
approximately 600 bp was detected in DNA samples extracted from