Confocal ratio imaging of cytoplasmic pH during germ tube growth and appressorium induction by Magnaporthe grisea

New Phytologist

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 499-506

  Jelitto, T C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Confocal ratio imaging; Cytoplasmic pH; Rice blast; SNARF 1; Tip growth

Indexed keywords

MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA;

EID: 0033504229     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.1999.00535.x     Document Type: Article

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