Differentiation of Scytalidium thermophilum isolates by thermogravimetric analyses of their biomass

Mycological Research

Volumn 102, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 843-849

  Lyons, Gary A ^a   Sharma, H S Shekhar ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CELL WALL; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; MORPHOLOGY; SPOROGENESIS;

SCYTALIDIUM THERMOPHILUM;

EID: 0031874188     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0953756297005911     Document Type: Article

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