Conidial pigmentation is important to tolerance against solar-simulated radiation in the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 418-422

  Braga, Gilberto U L ^a,b   Rangel, Drauzio E N ^b   Flint, Stephan D ^b   Anderson, Anne J ^b   Roberts, Donald W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; GENETICS; GERMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; TIME; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; GERMINATION; HYPOCREALES; MUTATION; PIGMENTATION; RADIATION TOLERANCE; TIME FACTORS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

FUNGI; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE VAR. ANISOPLIAE;

EID: 33646240154     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/2005-05-08-RA-52     Document Type: Article

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