Biological characteristics of selected Erynia neoaphidis isolates

Mycological Research

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 213-219

  Sierotzki, H ^a,b   Camastral, F ^a   Shah, P A ^a   Aebi, M ^a   Tuor, U ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Toxicology Department   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CONIDIUM; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA FRAGMENT; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYSTYRENE; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SPOROGENESIS; SURFACE; SWITZERLAND; VIRULENCE;

BIOCONTROL AGENT; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; FUNGUS; GERMINATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; SPORULATION;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHIDIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERYNIA; ERYNIA NEOAPHIDIS; FUNGI; HEMIPTERA; HOMOPTERA; PANDORA NEOAPHIDIS; PISUM;

EID: 0033946656     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0953756299001392     Document Type: Article

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