Fungal community associated with Arctic moss, Tetraplodon mimoides and its rhizosphere: Bioprospecting for production of industrially useful enzymes

Current Science

Volumn 100, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1701-1705

  Gawas Sakhalkar, Puja ^a   Singh, Shiv Mohan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRE FOR ANTARCTIC AND OCEAN RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Bioprospecting; Cold adapted enzyme; Fungal diversity; Rhizosphere

Indexed keywords

BOTRYTIS; BRYOPHYTA; CLADOSPORIUM; CLADOSPORIUM CHLOROCEPHALUM; MORTIERELLA; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM GLABRUM; PENICILLIUM RUGULOSUM; TETRAPLODON; VERRUCOSA;

EID: 79959689853     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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