Mistletoe viscotoxins induce membrane permeabilization and spore death in phytopathogenic fungi

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 2-7

  Giudici, Ana Marcela ^a,b   Regente, Mariana Clelia ^a   Villalaín, José ^b   Pfüller, Karola ^c   Pfüller, Uwe ^c   De La Canal, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; FLUORESCENCE; FUNGI; MEMBRANES; PATHOLOGY; PROTEINS; SEED; TOXICITY;

MAMMALIAN CELLS; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; PATHOGENIC FUNGI; SPORE DEATH;

PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM SOLANI; MAMMALIA; SCLEROTINIA; SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM; VISCUM; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 2442502608     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0031-9317.2004.00259.x     Document Type: Article

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