Control of plant disease by perturbation of fungal polyamine metabolism

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 689-695

  Walters, D R ^a   Mackintosh, C A ^a  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fungal pathogens; Inhibitors of polyamine biosynthesis; Ornithine decarboxylase; Plant disease; Polyamine analogues; Polyamines; Putrescine; S adenosylmethionine decarboxylase; Spermidine; Spermidine synthase; Spermine

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030854972     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1997.1000332.x     Document Type: Article

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