Three new species of Aspergillus section Flavi isolated from almonds and maize in Portugal

Mycologia

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 682-697

  Soares, Célia ^a   Rodrigues, Paula ^a,b   Peterson, Stephen W ^c   Lima, Nelson ^a   Venâncio, Armando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE BRAGANÇA   (Portugal)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL UTILIZATION RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

A. mottae; A. sergii; A. transmontanensis; Aflatoxins; Aspergillus chungii; Cyclopiazonic acid; Multilocus sequence analysis

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; CYCLOPIAZONIC ACID; ENZYME INHIBITOR; FUNGAL DNA; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; MYCOTOXIN;

COMMON ANCESTRY; MAIZE; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; TOXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PORTUGAL; PRUNUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AFLATOXINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GENES, FUNGAL; INDOLES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MYCOTOXINS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASES; PORTUGAL; PRUNUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORES, FUNGAL; ZEA MAYS;

PORTUGAL;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS PARASITICUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84863534450     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/11-088     Document Type: Article

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