Responses in the mycelial growth of Aspergillus niger isolates to arsenic contaminated environments and their resistance to exogenic metal stress

Journal of Basic Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 295-300

  Bučková, Mária ^a   Godočíková, Jana ^a   Polek, Bystrík ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Arsenic contaminated environments; Exogenic metal stress; Mycelial growth of Aspergillus niger

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; METAL;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; DRUG EFFECT; FUNGUS SPORE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCELIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEDIMENT; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ARSENIC; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METALS; MYCELIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SPORES, FUNGAL;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER;

EID: 34547729164     PISSN: 0233111X     EISSN: 15214028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jobm.200610299     Document Type: Article

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