Characterization of a laccase in the conidial mucilage of Colletotrichum graminicola

Mycologia

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 996-1002

  Anderson, Donald W ^a   Nicholson, Ralph L ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

phenol oxidizing enzyme; polyphenol oxidase; syringaldazine

Indexed keywords

COLLETOTRICHUM; GLOMERELLA GRAMINICOLA; GRAMINICOLA;

EID: 0030425022     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3761063     Document Type: Article

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