Cloning and characterization of a member of the Xanthomonas avr/pth gene family that evades all commercially utilized cotton R genes in the United States

Phytopathology

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1160-1167

  Chakrabarty, P K ^a   Duan, Y P ^a   Gabriel, D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cotton blight; Gene for gene; Gossypium hirsutum; Race specificity

Indexed keywords

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HIRSUTUM; XANTHOMONAS; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS PV. MALVACEARUM;

EID: 0030777424     PISSN: 0031949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PHYTO.1997.87.11.1160     Document Type: Article

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