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Grzegorz Worobiec1, Frank Harald Neumann2, Elżbieta Worobiec1

  • 1W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lubicz 46, PL-31-512 Kraków, Poland.

Fungal Biology
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PubMed

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