Photodynamic inactivation of conidia of the fungi metarhizium anisopliae and aspergillus nidulans with methylene blue and toluidine blue

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 653-661

  Gonzales, Fernanda P ^a   Da Silva, Sérgio H ^a   Roberts, Donald W ^b   Braga, Gilberto U L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLENE BLUE; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; TOLONIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; COLOR; CYTOLOGY; DISINFECTION; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETICS; METARHIZIUM; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; COLOR; DISINFECTION; METARHIZIUM; METHYLENE BLUE; MUTATION; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; SPORES, FUNGAL; TOLONIUM CHLORIDE;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 77951868281     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: 17511097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2009.00689.x     Document Type: Article

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