Impact of water-stress and washing treatments on production, synthesis and retention of endogenous sugar alcohols and germinability of Metarhizium anisopliae blastospores

Mycological Research

Volumn 108, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1337-1345

  Ypsilos, Ioannis K ^a   Magan, Naresh ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCONTROL AGENT; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; FUNGUS; REARING; WATER STRESS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; METARHIZIUM; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE;

EID: 9344231919     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0953756204001030     Document Type: Article

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