Hypovirulence: Mycoviruses at the fungal-plant interface

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 632-642

  Nuss, Donald L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTOME; VIRUS RNA;

ASCOMYCETES; BASIDIOMYCETES; DNA INTEGRATION; FUNGAL PLANT DISEASE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HYPHOMYCETES; INFECTION CONTROL; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENESIS; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; PLANT VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOVIRUS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOTIVIRIDAE; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRAL PLANT DISEASE; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; GENOME, VIRAL; MITOCHONDRIA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; RNA VIRUSES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; HYPHOMYCETES; HYPOVIRIDAE; MYCOVIRUS; REOVIRUS SP.; RNA VIRUSES; TOTIVIRIDAE;

EID: 22944492730     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1206     Document Type: Review

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