PCR amplification of the Irish potato famine pathogen from historic specimens

Nature

Volumn 411, Issue 6838, 2001, Pages 695-697

  Ristaino, Jean B ^a   Groves, Carol T ^a,b   Parra, Gregory R ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); POPULATION STATISTICS;

ANCESTRAL STRAIN;

PATHOLOGY;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; GENOME; HAPLOTYPE; HUNGER; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; PLANT LEAF; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN BANKS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; IRELAND; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYTOPHTHORA; PLANT DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; STARVATION;

FUNGI; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0035822055     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35079606     Document Type: Article

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