Ecology and Epidemiology of Benyviruses and Plasmodiophorid Vectors

Annual Review of Phytopathology

Volumn 41, Issue , 2003, Pages 567-592

  Rush, Charles M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beet necrotic yellow vein virus; Furovirus; Polymyxa; Real time PCR; Rhizomania

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; RNA VIRUS; VIROLOGY;

FUNGI; RNA VIRUSES;

ARCTIUM; BEET NECROTIC YELLOW VEIN VIRUS; BEET SOIL-BORNE MOSAIC VIRUS; BENYVIRUS; BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; FUNGI; FUROVIRUS; PLASMODIOPHORIDA; POLYMYXA; POLYMYXA BETAE; POLYMYXA GRAMINIS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0242574370     PISSN: 00664286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.phyto.41.052002.095705     Document Type: Review

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