How a fungus escapes the water to grow into the air

Current Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 85-88

  Wösten, Han A B ^a   Van Wetter, Marie Anne ^a   Lugones, Luis G ^a   Van der Mei, Henny C ^a   Busscher, Henk J ^a   Wessels, Joseph G H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; SCHIZOPHYLLUM COMMUNE; STREPTOMYCES TENDAE;

EID: 0033611553     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(99)80019-0     Document Type: Article

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