Transmissible mitochondrial hypovirulence in a natural population of Cryphonectria parasitica

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 88-95

  Baidyaroy, Dipnath ^a   Huber, David H ^a,c   Fulbright, Dennis W ^a   Bertrand, Helmut ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Univ Rochester Sch Med and Dent ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyanide resistant respiration; KFC9; Vegetative incompatibility; vic.

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAY; CHESTNUT; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL GROWTH; GENOTYPE; GROWTH INHIBITION; MICROBE RESPIRATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRION; PHENOTYPE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SENESCENCE; UNITED STATES; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CASTANEA DENTATA; CRYPHONECTRIA PARASITICA; FUNGI; TEREBRANTIA;

EID: 0033985778     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2000.13.1.88     Document Type: Article

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