Biodiversity and ITS-RFLP characterisation of Aspergillus section Nigri isolates in grapes from four traditional grape-producing areas in Greece

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Kizis, Dimosthenis ^a   Natskoulis, Pantelis ^a   Nychas, George John E ^a   Panagou, Efstathios Z ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; OCHRATOXIN; RIBOSOME RNA; FUNGAL DNA;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS CARBONARIUS; ASPERGILLUS IBERICUS; ASPERGILLUS JAPONICUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; ASPERGILLUS TUBINGENSIS; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GRAPE; GREECE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA GENE; VINEYARD; ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD CONTROL; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; VITIS;

ASPERGILLUS; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, FUNGAL; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GREECE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VITIS;

EID: 84899452632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093923     Document Type: Article

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