Soil populations of Aspergillus species from section Flavi along a transect through peanut-growing regions of the United States

Mycologia

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 767-776

  Horn, B W ^a   Dorner, J W ^a  

^a NATIONAL PEANUT RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aflatoxins; Corn; Cotton; Vegetative compatibility group

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; COTTON; CULTIVAR; CYCLOPIAZONIC ACID; FUNGAL GROWTH; FUNGAL INVASION; GEORGIA; MAIZE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SECONDARY METABOLITE; SOIL; SOYBEAN; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; FUNGUS; SOIL BIOTA;

UNITED STATES;

ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; ASPERGILLUS CAELATUS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS NOMIUS; ASPERGILLUS PARASITICUS; ASPERGILLUS TAMARII;

EID: 0031782905     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3761317     Document Type: Article

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