Isolation and in vitro cultivation of the insect pathogenic fungus Cordyceps unilateralis

Mycological Research

Volumn 109, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 936-940

  Wongsa, Patcharaporn ^a   Tasanatai, Kanoksri ^a   Watts, Patricia ^a   Hywel Jones, Nigel ^a  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS;

BOVINAE; CORDYCEPS; CORDYCEPS UNILATERALIS; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; INSECTA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 24044464222     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0953756205003321     Document Type: Article

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