Mutants of Nectria haematococca created by a site-directed chromosome breakage are greatly reduced in virulence toward pea

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 804-809

  Kistler, H Corby ^a   Meinhardt, Lyndel W ^a,b   Benny, Ulla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

B chromosome; Fusarium solani

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; FUNGI IMPERFECTI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM SOLANI; NECTRIA HAEMATOCOCCA; PISUM SATIVUM; SATIVUM;

EID: 0030457838     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-9-0804     Document Type: Article

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