Specific detection of the toxigenic species Fusarium proliferatum and F. oxysporum from asparagus plants using primers based on calmodulin gene sequences

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 230, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 235-240

  Mulè, Giuseppina ^a   Susca, Antonia ^a   Stea, Gaetano ^a   Moretti, Antonio ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES OF FOOD PRODUCTION   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asparagus; Calmodulin gene; Fusarium oxysporum; Fusarium proliferatum

Indexed keywords

CALMODULIN; FUMONISIN B1; FUMONISIN B2; FUNGAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; ASPARAGUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; FUSARIUM PROLIFERATUM; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ASPARAGUS; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; FUSARIUM PROLIFERATUM;

EID: 1642562987     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00926-1     Document Type: Article

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