Botryosphaeria species from Eucalyptus in Australia are pleoanamorphic, producing Dichomera synanamorphs in culture

Mycological Research

Volumn 109, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1347-1363

  Barber, Paul A ^a,b   Burgess, Treena J ^b   Hardy, Giles E St J ^b   Slippers, Bernard ^c   Keane, Philip J ^a   Wingfield, Michael J ^d  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

FUNGUS; PATHOGEN; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; AUSTRALIA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGY; EUCALYPTUS; FRUITING BODY; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

ASCOMYCOTA; AUSTRALIA; DNA, FUNGAL; ECOLOGY; EUCALYPTUS; FRUITING BODIES, FUNGAL; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

BOTRYOSPHAERIA; BOTRYOSPHAERIA DOTHIDEA; DICHOMERA; DICHOMERA VERSIFORMIS; DIPLODIA; EUCALYPTUS; FUNGI; FUSICOCCUM;

EID: 27744435774     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: 14698102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0953756205003989     Document Type: Article

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