Identification of pathogenicity mutants of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea by insertional mutagenesis

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 129-142

  Balhadère, Pascale V ^a   Foster, Andrew J ^a   Talbot, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ANALYSIS; INSERTIONAL MUTAGENESIS; MICROBIAL FUNCTION; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE;

MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA;

EID: 0345320440     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1999.12.2.129     Document Type: Article

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