Regulation of hyphal growth and sporulation of the insect pathogenic fungus Entomophthora thripidum in vitro

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 222, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 281-287

  Freimoser, Florian M ^a   Grundschober, Anne ^a   Tuor, Urs ^a   Aebi, Markus ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Entomophthorales; Hyphal growth; Nitrogen limitation; Sporulation; Zygomycetes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIATION; ENTOMOPHTHORA; ENTOMOPHTHORA THRIPIDUM; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INOCULATION; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOPLAST; SPOROGENESIS;

ENTOMOPHTHORA THRIPIDUM; ENTOMOPHTHORALES; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; ZYGOMYCETES;

EID: 0037721462     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00315-X     Document Type: Article

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