Cloning, expression, and role in pathogenicity of pg1 encoding the major extracellular endopolygalacturonase of the vascular wilt pathogen Fusarium oxysporum

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 91-98

  Di Pietro, Antonio ^a   Roncero, M Isabel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRUS; CUCUMIS; CUCUMIS MELO; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM F. SP. LYCOPERSICI; FUSARIUM SP.; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MELONIS;

EID: 0032006855     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1998.11.2.91     Document Type: Article

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