A new ophiostomatoid genus from Protea infructescences

Mycologia

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 136-141

  Marais, Gert J ^a,b   Wingfield, Michael J ^a   Viljoen, Christopher D ^a   Wingfield, Brenda D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^b DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Ceratocystiopsis; Ceratocystis; Gondwanamyces; Ophiostoma; RFLP

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031952555     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3761023     Document Type: Article

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