Potential for outcrossing in an apparently asexual population of Fusarium circinatum, the causal agent of pitch canker disease

Mycologia

Volumn 92, Issue 1-6, 2000, Pages 1085-1090

  Wikler, Karen ^a   Gordon, Thomas R ^a   Clark, Sharon L ^a   Wingfield, Michael J ^b   Britz, Henriette ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Forest pathology; Fungal pathogen; Gibberella circinata; Pinus radiata

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002855877     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00275514.2000.12061256     Document Type: Article

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