Differential production of extracellular laccase in the dutch elm disease pathogens Ophiostoma ulmi and O. novo-ulmi

Mycological Research

Volumn 100, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1060-1064

  Binz, Thomas ^a   Canevascini, Giorgio ^a  

^a Inst de Biol Veg   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FUNGAL GROWTH; PH;

FUNGI; OPHIOSTOMA NOVO; OPHIOSTOMA NOVO-ULMI; OPHIOSTOMA ULMI; ULMUS; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 0030324812     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0953-7562(96)80213-9     Document Type: Article

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