Effect of tyrosinase inhibitors on Tuber borchii mycelium growth in vitro

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 69-75

  Poma, Anna ^a   Pacioni, Giovanni ^a   Colafarina, Sabrina ^a   Miranda, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cladosporium sphaerospermum; Mycelium growth; Tuber borchii; Tyrosinase inhibitor

Indexed keywords

COPPER SULFATE; DIETHYLDITHIOCARBAMIC ACID; ENZYME INHIBITOR; KOJIC ACID; MIMOSINE; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PHENYLTHIOUREA; TROPOLONE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FUNGUS GROWTH; MELANOGENESIS; MOULD; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ASCOMYCOTA; CLADOSPORIUM; COPPER SULFATE; CULTURE MEDIA; DITIOCARB; ENZYME INHIBITORS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MIMOSINE; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; MYCOTOXINS; PHENYLTHIOUREA; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; PYRONES; TROPOLONE;

EID: 0032832901     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00466-8     Document Type: Article

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