Production of several isoforms of β-1,4-glucanase by the cyanolichen Peltigera canina

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 159-164

  De Los Ríos, Asunción ^a   Ramírez, Rosalía ^a   Estévez, Filar ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

1,4 glucanase isozymes; Cellulose degradation; cyanolichen; lichen cell wall; Nostoc; Peltigera canina; symbiosis

Indexed keywords

PELTIGERA CANINA;

EID: 1842372107     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1997.1000118.x     Document Type: Article

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