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Xinyi Nie1, Song Yu1, Mengguang Qiu1

  • 1Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Fungi and Mycotoxins of Fujian Province, Key Laboratory of Biopesticide and Chemical Biology of Education Ministry, School of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University , Fuzhou 350002, China.

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
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PubMed

Keywords:
AfsumOAspergillus flavusSUMOylationaflatoxinmorphogenesispathogenicity

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