Some environmental factors affect growth and antibiotic production by the mycoparasite Coniothyrium minitans

Biocontrol Science and Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 721-731

  Tomprefa, Nicola ^a   Hill, Robert ^b   Whipps, John ^a   McQuilken, Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Coniothyrium minitans; Environmental factors; Macrosphelide A; Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BIOMASS; BUFFERING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUNGAL DISEASE; GROWTH RESPONSE; INHIBITION; MYCOPARASITE; PH; SUGAR; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CONIOTHYRIUM MINITANS; SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 79956070864     PISSN: 09583157     EISSN: 13600478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09583157.2011.575211     Document Type: Article

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