Elsinochrome A production by the bindweed biocontrol fungus Stagonospora convolvuli LA39 does not pose a risk to the environment or the consumer of treated crops

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 194-205

  Boss, Désirée ^a   Maurhofer, Monika ^a,b   Schläpfer, Elsbeth ^a   Défago, Geneviève ^a  

^a Plant Pathology   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bindweed; Biocontrol; Elsinochrome A; Fungal metabolites; Risk assessment; Stagonospora convolvuli

Indexed keywords

ELSINOCHROME A; LEPTOSPHAERODIONE; TOXIN;

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CROP PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS; METABOLITE; PESTICIDE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; TOXICITY; WEED CONTROL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; FUNGUS; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEEDLING; STAGONOSPORA CONVOLVULI; STRAWBERRY; TOXICITY TESTING; WEED;

ANIMALS; CONVOLVULUS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FRAGARIA; FUNGI; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PERYLENE; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; QUINONES; TETRAHYMENA PYRIFORMIS;

CONVOLVULUS; FUNGI; PROTOZOA; STAGONOSPORA CONVOLVULI;

EID: 33845671410     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2006.00207.x     Document Type: Article

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