Infection-related development in the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 693-697

  Hamer, John E ^a   Talbot, Nicholas J ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAGNAPORTHE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; REVIEW; RICE;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MAGNAPORTHE; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT DISEASES;

EID: 0032241472     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(98)80117-3     Document Type: Article

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