Use of Coniothyrium minitans transformed with the hygromycin B resistance gene to study survival and infection of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum sclerotia in soil

Mycological Research

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 267-276

  Jones, E Eirian ^a   Stewart, Alison ^b   Whipps, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS; PARASITE; SOIL FAUNA; SURVIVAL;

CONIOTHYRIUM; CONIOTHYRIUM MINITANS; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; SCLEROTINIA; SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM;

EID: 0037505838     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0953756203007457     Document Type: Article

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