Inactivation of the flax rust resistance gene M associated with loss of a repeated unit within the leucine-rich repeat coding region

Plant Cell

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 641-651

  Anderson, Peter A ^a,b,c   Lawrence, Gregory J ^a,b,c   Morrish, Bronwyn C ^a,b,c   Ayliffe, Michael A ^a,b,c   Jean Finnegan, E ^a,b,c   Ellis, Jeffrey G ^a,b,c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Cooperative Research Centre for Plant Science ^*  (Australia)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 0031127301     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.9.4.641     Document Type: Article

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