Antifungal activity of extracellular hydrolases produced by autolysing Aspergillus nidulans cultures

Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 849-854

  Szilágyi, Melinda ^a   Anton, Fruzsina ^a   Forgács, Katalin ^a   Yu, Jae Hyuk ^b   Pócsi, István ^a   Emri, Tamás ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

A. nidulans; antifungal activity; chitinase; proteinase; 1,3 glucanase

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868516834     PISSN: 12258873     EISSN: 19763794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12275-012-2001-0     Document Type: Article

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