Application of mating type gene technology to problems in fungal biology

Annual Review of Phytopathology

Volumn 36, Issue , 1998, Pages 115-137

  Turgeon, B Gillian ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Asexual; Cochliobolus; Evolution; Heterothallic; Homothallic

Indexed keywords

CLONED GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIVERSITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION;

ASCOMYCOTA; COCHLIOBOLUS; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 0031710881     PISSN: 00664286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.phyto.36.1.115     Document Type: Article

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