Temperature and water stress impacts on growth and production of altertoxin-II by strains of alternaria tenuissima from Argentinean wheat

World Mycotoxin Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 329-334

  Patriarca, A ^a   Medina, A ^b   Pinto, V Fernández ^a   Magan, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternaria; altertoxin II; growth; temperature; water stress

Indexed keywords

ALTERTOXIN II; MYCOTOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

AGAR MEDIUM; ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA TENUISSIMA; ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; NONHUMAN; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE STRESS; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; WATER STRESS; WHEAT;

EID: 84904809807     PISSN: 18750710     EISSN: 18750796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3920/WMJ2013.1711     Document Type: Article

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