Sclerotial biogenesis in the basidiomycete Sclerotium rolfsii. A scanning electron microscope study

Mycologia

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 598-602

  Zarani, Flora ^a   Christias, Christos ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Exudation; Sclerotia

Indexed keywords

ATHELIA ROLFSII; BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 0030858814     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3760997     Document Type: Article

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