Recombination pathways in Phytophthora infestans: Polyploidy resulting from aberrant sexual development and zoospore-mediated heterokaryosis

Mycological Research

Volumn 102, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1245-1253

  Judelson, Howard S ^a   Yang, Ge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MARKER; HETEROKARYOSIS; HYBRID; HYGROMYCIN; MATING SYSTEM; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; ZOOSPORE;

FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS;

EID: 0031665494     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0953756298006388     Document Type: Article

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