Potato carrot agar with manganese as an isolation medium for Alternaria, Epicoccum and Phoma

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 22-26

  Sørensen, Jens Laurids ^a   Mogensen, Jesper Mølgaard ^a   Thrane, Ulf ^a   Andersen, Birgitte ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dematiaceous hyphomycetes; Food safety; PCA Mn; Selective medium

Indexed keywords

AGAR; ASCOMYCOTA; CULTURE MEDIA; DAUCUS CAROTA; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; MANGANESE; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

ALTERNARIA; ASPERGILLUS; DAUCUS CAROTA; EPICOCCUM; EPICOCCUM NIGRUM; EUROTIUM; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; HYPHOMYCETES; LEWIA INFECTORIA; MUCOR; MYCOTA; PARACONIOTHYRIUM; PENICILLIUM; PHOMA; PHOMA EUPYRENA; RHIZOPUS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 59849105760     PISSN: 01681605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2008.12.029     Document Type: Article

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