Mycoflora of freshly harvested flint corn from Northwestern Provinces in Argentina

Mycopathologia

Volumn 155, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 207-211

  Gonzalez H H L ^a,b   Resnik, S L ^b,c   Pacin, A M ^c,d  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c Universidad Provincial del Sudoeste   (Argentina)

^d DEPARTAMENTO DE CIENCIAS BÁSICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Flint corn; Fusarium verticillioides

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; ASPERGILLUS; FUSARIUM; PENICILLIUM; ZEA MAYS;

FUNGI; FUSARIUM; GIBBERELLA MONILIFORMIS; GIBBERELLA ZEAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0036931458     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021125609408     Document Type: Article

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