Transgenic creeping bentgrass with delayed dollar spot symptoms

Molecular Breeding

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 95-101

  Guo, Zhenfei ^a   Bonos, Stacy ^a   Meyer, William A ^a   Day, Peter R ^a   Belanger, Faith C ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease resistance; Dollar spot; Transgenic creeping bentgrass

Indexed keywords

ENZYME ACTIVITY; PATHOGENS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

AGROSTIS; CREEPING BENTGRASS; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DOLLAR SPOT; FUNGAL PATHOGEN; GOLF COURSE; TRANSGENIC APPROACHES; TRANSGENIC CREEPING BENTGRASS; TRANSGENICS; TURFGRASS;

DISEASE CONTROL;

AGROSTIS; AGROSTIS PALUSTRIS; AGROSTIS STOLONIFERA; AGROSTIS STOLONIFERA VAR. PALUSTRIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; FUNGI; POACEAE; SCLEROTINIA HOMOEOCARPA;

EID: 0037293206     PISSN: 13803743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022458101221     Document Type: Article

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