Expansion of the sooty blotch and flyspeck complex on apples based on analysis of ribosomal DNA gene sequences and morphology

Mycologia

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1268-1286

  Batzer, Jean Carlson ^a   Gleason, Mark L ^a   Harrington, Thomas C ^a   Tiffany, Lois H ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colletogloeum; Dissoconium; Dothideomycetes; Gloeodes pomigena; Passalora; Plant pathology; Pseudocercospora; Pseudocercosporella; Ramularia; SBFS; Xenostigmina

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 28S; RNA 5.8S;

FRUITING; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; GENE FLOW; ORCHARD; PHYLOGENETICS; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION;

APPLE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCELIUM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; MALUS; MYCELIUM; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

DISSOCONIUM; DOTHIDEALES; DOTHIDEOMYCETES; FUNGI; GLOEODES POMIGENA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; MYCOSPHAERELLA; PASSALORA; PELTASTER FRUCTICOLA; PLEOSPORALES; PSEUDOCERCOSPORA; PSEUDOCERCOSPORELLA; PYRUS COMMUNIS; RAMULARIA; SCHIZOTHYRIUM POMI; XENOSTIGMINA;

EID: 33646566826     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 00275514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/mycologia.97.6.1268     Document Type: Article

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