Nuclear behavior of the cowpea rust fungus during the early stages of basidiospore- or urediospore-derived growth in resistant or susceptible cowpea cultivars

Phytopathology

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1057-1065

  Heath, Michèle C ^a   Xu, Haixin ^a   Eilam, Tamar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

dikaryon; hypersensitive response; monokaryon; Uromyces vignae

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029989154     PISSN: 0031949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/Phyto-86-1057     Document Type: Article

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