Biocompetitive exclusion of toxigenic fungi

The Mycotoxin Factbook: Food & Feed Topics

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 179-197

  Cotty, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Corn; Cottonseed; Ecology; Fungal adaptation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899343613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-587-1     Document Type: Chapter

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