Sensitive and specific detection of Clavibacter xyli subsp. xyli, causal agent of ratoon stunting disease of sugarcane, with a polymerase chain reaction-based assay

Plant Pathology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 495-504

  Fegan, M ^a   Croft, B J ^a,b   Teakle, D S ^a   Hayward, A C ^a   Smith, G R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b BSES LIMITED   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTION; DISEASE DETECTION; EXTRACTION; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER REGION; OPERON; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATOON STUNTING DISEASE; RRNA GENE; SUGARCANE;

CLAVIBACTER XYLI;

EID: 0031855786     PISSN: 00320862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3059.1998.00255.x     Document Type: Article

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