Characteristics of protoplast inter, intra-fusant and regeneration of antagonistic fungi Trichoderma harzianum and Trichoderma viride

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 3235-3243

  Balasubramanian, Natesan ^a   Lalithakumari, Damodaran ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Fusion; Isolation; Regeneration; Trichoderm viride; Trichoderma harzianum

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; CHITIN; FUNGICIDE; MACROGOL;

ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; CELL REGENERATION; FUNGUS; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; PROTOPLAST; PROTOPLAST ISOLATION; SPOROGENESIS; TRICHODERMA HARZIANUM; TRICHODERMA VIRIDE;

FUNGI; HYPOCREA LIXII; TRICHODERMA VIRIDE;

EID: 52949142379     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16845315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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