Comparative determination of cerato-ulmin on cell surface and in mycelial extracts of pathogenic and non-pathogenic Ophiostoma species

Mycological Research

Volumn 101, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 829-834

  Scala, Felice ^a   Bertelli, Emanuela ^b   Coppola, Lucia ^b   Del Sorbo, Giovanni ^a   Tegli, Stefania ^b   Scala, Aniello ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; OPHIOSTOMA; OPHIOSTOMA NOVO; OPHIOSTOMA NOVO-ULMI; OPHIOSTOMA PICEAE; OPHIOSTOMA ULMI; ULMUS;

EID: 0031421645     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0953756296003358     Document Type: Article

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