Fueling the future with fungal genomics

Mycology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 192-209

  Grigoriev, Igor V ^a   Cullen, Daniel ^b   Goodwin, Stephen B ^c   Hibbett, David ^d   Jeffries, Thomas W ^b   Kubicek, Christian P ^e   Kuske, Cheryl ^f   Magnuson, Jon K ^g   Martin, Francis ^h   Spatafora, Joseph W ⁱ   Tsang, Adrian ^j   Baker, Scott E ^a,g  

^a DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^f LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

ⁱ OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

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Author keywords

Biofuels; Fungi; Genomics

Indexed keywords

FUNGI;

EID: 79955764637     PISSN: 21501203     EISSN: 21501211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21501203.2011.584577     Document Type: Article

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