Advances in detection and identification of wood rotting fungi in timber and standing trees

Molecular Identification of Fungi

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 251-276

  Nicolotti, Giovanni ^a   Gonthier, Paolo ^a   Guglielmo, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Basidiomycota; PCR; Primer; Sequencing; Wood decay

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953528274     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-05042-8_12     Document Type: Chapter

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