The presence and antifeedant function of toxin-producing secretory cells on hyphae of the lawn-inhabiting agaric Conocybe lactea

Canadian Journal of Botany

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 431-434

  Hutchison, Leonard J ^a   Madzia, Susan E ^a   Barron, George L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antifeedants; Lawn mushroom; Nematotoxin; Secretory cells

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030047867     PISSN: 00084026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/b96-053     Document Type: Article

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