What determines growth direction in fungal hyphae?

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 101-109

  Riquelme, Meritxell ^a   Reynaga Peña, Cristina G ^a   Gierz, Gerhard ^a   Bartnicki García, Salomon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Direction of growth; Hyphal morphogenesis; Neurospora crassa growth; Spitzenkorper

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNGUS GROWTH; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROFILAMENT; MICROSCOPY; MICROTUBULE; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 0032098222     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/fgbi.1998.1074     Document Type: Article

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