The effects of glyphosate on the in vitro linear growth of selected microfungi from a boreal forest soil

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 138-144

  Tanney, Joey B ^a   Hutchison, Leonard J ^a  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Glyphosate; Nontarget organism; Roundup; Soil microorganisms

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FORESTS; COLONY FORMING UNITS; DIFFERENTIAL SENSITIVITY; FUNGAL GROWTH; FUNGAL SPECIES; GLYPHOSATES; IN-VITRO; LINEAR GROWTH; MICRO-FUNGI; NON-TARGET ORGANISM; PLANT COMPETITION; SOIL MICRO-ORGANISMS; TOLERANT SPECIES;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FORESTRY; FUNGI; MICROORGANISMS; SOILS;

HERBICIDES;

GLYPHOSATE;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; BOREAL FOREST; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOTOXICOLOGY; FOREST SOIL; FUNGUS; GLYPHOSATE; GROWTH RATE; INHIBITION; NONTARGET ORGANISM; PIGMENT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SAMPLE PREPARATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL TYPE; SPORULATION;

ABSIDIA; ARTICLE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREST SOIL; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GLIOCLADIUM; GLIOCLADIUM ROSEUM; GROWTH INHIBITION; GYMNOASCUS INTERMEDIUS; IN VITRO STUDY; LECYTHOPHORA; MICROMYCETE; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM THOMII; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOMUCOR; RHIZOMUCOR PUSILLUS; SPOROGENESIS; TAIGA; TRICHODERMA VIRIDE; VERTICILLIUM; VERTICILLIUM TENERUM;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FUNGI; GLYCINE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES;

AGRICULTURE; CONCENTRATING; CONCENTRATION; DIAMETER; FORESTRY; FUNGI; HERBICIDES; INHIBITION; MICROORGANISMS; SOIL; TERMINALIA LATIFOLIA;

FUNGI;

EID: 77949493117     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/W09-122     Document Type: Article

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