Breaking and entering: Host penetration by the fungal rice blast pathogen Magnaporthe grisea

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue , 1996, Pages 491-512

  Howard, Richard J ^a   Valent, Barbara ^a  

^a DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

appressorium; fungal genetics; host pathogen interaction; melanin; plant pathology; turgor pressure

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RICE;

ASCOMYCOTA; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MECHANICS; MELANINS; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT DISEASES;

FUNGI; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; POACEAE;

EID: 0029816544     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.50.1.491     Document Type: Review

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