Use of internal transcribed spacer primers and fungicide treatments to study the anther-smut disease, Microbotryum violaceum (=Ustilago violacea), of white campion Silene alba (=Silene latifolia)

International Journal of Plant Sciences

Volumn 160, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1171-1176

  Akhter, Shamima ^a   Antonovics, Janis ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anther smut; Bayleton; Folicur; ITS primers; Silene alba; Ustilago violacea

Indexed keywords

BUD; FLOWER; FOLICUR; FUNGAL INFECTION; FUNGICIDE; FUNGUS DETECTION; INOCULATION; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; MERISTEM; PLANT PATHOGEN; PLANT ROOT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMER DNA; TRIADIMEFON;

MICROBOTRYUM VIOLACEUM; SILENE LATIFOLIA; USTILAGO VIOLACEA;

EID: 0033428208     PISSN: 10585893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/314197     Document Type: Article

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