Pythium phragmitis sp. nov., a new species close to P. arrhenomanes as a pathogen of common reed (Phragmites australis)

Mycological Research

Volumn 109, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1337-1346

  Nechwatal, Jan ^a   Wielgoss, Anna ^a   Mendgen, Kurt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

NEW SPECIES; PATHOGEN; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENETICS; REEDBED;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGY; EUROPE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETICS; MAIZE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POACEAE; PYTHIUM;

CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOLOGY; EUROPE; PHYLOGENY; POACEAE; PYTHIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORES, FUNGAL; ZEA MAYS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; LAKE CONSTANCE; WORLD;

GRAMINICOLA; OOMYCETES; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; PYTHIUM; PYTHIUM ARRHENOMANES;

EID: 27744480357     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: 14698102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0953756205003990     Document Type: Article

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