Characterization of mycoviruses and analyses of chitinase secretion in the biocontrol fungus Metarhizium anisopliae

Current Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 334-339

  De la Paz Giménez Pecci, María ^a   Bogo, Maurício R ^b   Santi, Lucélia ^b   De Moraes, Caroline Kriger ^b   Tatiana Corrêa, Cláudia ^b   Henning Vainstein, Marilene ^b   Schrank, Augusto ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; CHITINASE; VIRUS RNA; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; BRAZIL; COLONY FORMATION; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; DENSITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENTOMOPATHOGENY; ENZYME RELEASE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HYBRIDIZATION; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUGARCANE; VIRION; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS PURIFICATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; DEUTEROMYCETES; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA VIRUS; SECRETION; VIROLOGY;

ARUNDINARIA; FUNGI; INSECTA; METARHIZIUM; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; PARTITIVIRIDAE; SACCHARUM; SACCHARUM HYBRID CULTIVAR; TOTIVIRIDAE;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAZIL; CAPSID PROTEINS; CHITINASE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA VIRUSES; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 0036834689     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-002-3678-9     Document Type: Article

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