Rare interspecific hybrids in natural populations of the Dutch elm disease pathogens Ophiostoma ulmi and O. novo-ulmi

Mycological Research

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 45-57

  Brasier, C M ^a   Kirk, S A ^a   Pipe, N D ^b,c   Buck, K W ^b  

^a FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIA; DUTCH ELM DISEASE; EUROPE; GROWTH RATE; INTERSPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATION; NORTH AMERICA; POLAND; PORTUGAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RECOMBINANT GENE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HYBRID; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; PATHOGENICITY; RIBOSOMAL DNA; TOXIN;

OPHIOSTOMA NOVA-ULMI; OPHIOSTOMA ULMI; OPHIOSTOMA NOVO-ULMI;

DUTCH ELM DISEASE; HYBRIDIZATION;

EID: 0031597513     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0953756297004541     Document Type: Article

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