Bioactivity of secondary metabolites and thallus extracts from lichen fungi

Mycoscience

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 413-418

  Kowalski, Mark ^a   Hausner, Georg ^a   Piercey Normore, Michele D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cladonia amaurocraea; Hypogymnia physodes; Plant pathogen; Vulpicida pinastri

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLADONIA; CLADONIA AMAUROCRAEA; FUNGI; HYPOGYMNIA PHYSODES; OPHIOSTOMA; OPHIOSTOMA NOVO-ULMI; SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM; VULPICIDA PINASTRI;

EID: 81255175167     PISSN: 13403540     EISSN: 16182545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10267-011-0118-3     Document Type: Article

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