Mycotoxin biosynthetic pathways: A window on the evolutionary relationships among toxigenic fungi

Modern Tools and Techniques to Understand Microbes

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 135-148

  Susca, Antonia ^a   Moretti, Antonio ^a   Logrieco, Antonio F ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES OF FOOD PRODUCTION   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-49197-4_9     Document Type: Chapter

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