Responses of fungi to tropane alkaloids produced by a medicinal plant Hyoscyamus muticus (Egyptian henbane)

Folia Microbiologica

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 207-212

  Abdel Motaal, F F ^a   Nassar, M S M ^b   El Zayat, S A ^b   El Sayed, M A ^a   Ito, S ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ASWAN UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ATROPINE; SCOPOLAMINE;

ARTICLE; CUNNINGHAMELLA; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYOSCYAMUS; MEDICINAL PLANT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PENICILLIUM;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ATROPINE; CUNNINGHAMELLA; HYOSCYAMUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PENICILLIUM; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SCOPOLAMINE;

CUNNINGHAMELLA ELEGANS; FUNGI; HYOSCYAMUS; HYOSCYAMUS MUTICUS; HYOSCYAMUS NIGER; PENICILLIUM PURPUROGENUM;

EID: 70349850943     PISSN: 00155632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12223-009-0033-6     Document Type: Article

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