Molecular biology of mycotoxin biosynthesis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 149-163

  Sweeney, Michael J ^a   Dobson, Alan D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Biosynthetic pathway; Cloning; Mycotoxin

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; AFLATOXIN B1; AFLATOXIN B2; AFLATOXIN G1; AFLATOXIN G2; FUMONISIN B1; FUMONISIN B2; FUMOSININ A1; FUMOSININ B3; MYCOTOXIN; STERIGMATOCYSTIN; TRICHOTHECENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ASPERGILLUS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CEPHALOSPORIUM; FUNGUS; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; PENICILLIUM; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRICHODERMA;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, FUNGAL; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; MYCOTOXINS;

EID: 0032791944     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00103-2     Document Type: Review

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