A conditionally dispensable chromosome controls host-specific pathogenicity in the fungal plant pathogen Alternaria alternata

Genetics

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 59-70

  Hatta, Rieko ^a   Ito, Kaoru ^a   Hosaki, Yoshitsugu ^b   Tanaka, Takayoshi ^a   Tanaka, Aiko ^a   Yamamoto, Mikihiro ^b   Akimitsu, Kazuya ^c   Tsuge, Takashi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

9,10 EPOXY 8 HYDROXY 9 METHYLDECATRIENOIC ACID; MYCOTOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNARIA; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; COSMID; DNA GEL BLOT ANALYSIS; FUNGAL PLANT DISEASE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE TARGETING; HOST RANGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PEAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STRAWBERRY; TANGERINE; TOXIN STRUCTURE; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; CITRUS RETICULATA; FRAGARIA X ANANASSA; FUNGI; PYRUS COMMUNIS; PYRUS PYRIFOLIA;

EID: 0036259583     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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