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Fahad Alkhayyat1, Jae-Hyuk Yu1

  • 1University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

Advances in Applied Microbiology
|January 1, 2014
PubMed

Keywords:
AflatoxinChromatin modificationDevelopmentFungiG protein signalingMycotoxinsRGSSterigmatocystinTranscription factorsVelvet regulators

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