Oomycetes and fungi: Similar weaponry to attack plants

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 462-469

  Latijnhouwers, Maita ^a,b   De Wit, Pierre J G M ^a   Govers, Francine ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FUNGUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OOMYCETES; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPOROGENESIS; TAXONOMY;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; CHRYSOPHYCEAE; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; OOMYCETES; PHAEOPHYCEAE; PROTOCTISTA;

EID: 0141483215     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2003.08.002     Document Type: Review

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