Pathogenic and enzyme activities of the entomopathogenic fungus Tolypocladium cylindrosporum (Ascomycota: Hypocreales) from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

Revista de Biologia Tropical

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 833-841

  Scorsetti, Ana C ^a   Elíades, Lorena A ^a   Stenglein, Sebastián A ^b   Cabello, Marta N ^a,c   Pelizza, Sebastián A ^a,d   Saparrat, Mario C N ^a,e,f  

^a Instituto de Botanica Carlos Spegazzini   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c Centro Científico y Tecnológico Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

^d CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS PARASITOLÓGICOS Y DE VECTORES CEPAVE   (Argentina)

^e Universidad Nacional de La Plata   (Argentina)

^f FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS AGRARIAS Y FORESTALES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Biological control; Chitinolytic activity; Entomopathogenesis; Hydrolases; Soil microorganisms; Tolypocladium cylindrosporum

Indexed keywords

HYDROLASE;

ANIMAL; APHID; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; HYPOCREALES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; ARGENTINA; HYDROLASES; HYPOCREALES; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

APHIDIDAE; ASCOMYCOTA; COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; HYPOCREALES; LEPIDOPTERA; RHOPALOSIPHUM PADI; TOLYPOCLADIUM CYLINDROSPORUM;

EID: 84866599828     PISSN: 00347744     EISSN: 22152075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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