The role of lectins in recognition and adhesion of the mycoparasitic fungus Trichoderma spp. to its host

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 408, Issue , 1996, Pages 229-231

  Inbar, Jacob ^a   Chet, Ilan ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; LECTIN;

CELL ADHESION; CELL WALL; CONFERENCE PAPER; HYPHOMYCETES; INFECTION; MYCOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FUNGI; HYPHOMYCETES; TRICHODERMA;

EID: 0029766229     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-0415-9_27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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