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Molecular characterisation of Aspergillus flavus isolates from peanut fields in India using AFLP.
Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] - 1 Jan 2000
Singh Diwakar, Radhakrishnan T, Kumar Vinod, Bagwan N B, Basu M S, Dobaria J R, Mishra Gyan P, Chanda S V
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Aflatoxin contamination of peanut, due to infection by Aspergillus flavus, is a major problem of rain-fed agriculture in India. In the present study, molecular characterisation of 187 Aspergillus flavus isolates, which were sampled from the peanut fields of Gujarat state in India, was performed using AFLP markers. On a pooled cluster analysis, the markers could successfully discriminate among the 'A', 'B' and 'G'...
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