Two novel fungal virulence genes specifically expressed in appressoria of the rice blast fungus

Plant Cell

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2107-2119

  Xue, Chaoyang ^a   Park, Gyungsoon ^a   Choi, Woobong ^a   Zheng, Li ^a   Dean, Ralph A ^a   Xu, Jin Rong ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYMES; FUNGI; GENES; MUTAGENESIS; VEGETATION;

FUNGUS;

PLANT CELL CULTURE;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ERYSIPHALES; FUNGI; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA;

EID: 0036743835     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.003426     Document Type: Article

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