Putting Fungi to Work: Harvesting a Cornucopia of Drugs, Toxins, and Antibiotics

Ulrich Kück; Sandra Bloemendal; Ines Teichert

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1003950

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Putting Fungi to Work: Harvesting a Cornucopia of Drugs, Toxins, and Antibiotics

Ulrich Kück ,

* E-mail: Ulrich.kueck@rub.de

Affiliations Christian Doppler Laboratory for Fungal Biotechnology, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany, Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine und Molekulare Botanik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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Sandra Bloemendal,

Affiliations Christian Doppler Laboratory for Fungal Biotechnology, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany, Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine und Molekulare Botanik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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Ines Teichert

Affiliation Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine und Molekulare Botanik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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Putting Fungi to Work: Harvesting a Cornucopia of Drugs, Toxins, and Antibiotics

Ulrich Kück,
Sandra Bloemendal,
Ines Teichert

Published: March 13, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003950

About the Authors

Ulrich Kück

* E-mail: Ulrich.kueck@rub.de

Affiliations Christian Doppler Laboratory for Fungal Biotechnology, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany, Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine und Molekulare Botanik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Sandra Bloemendal

Ines Teichert

Affiliation Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine und Molekulare Botanik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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