Biology of flower-infecting fungi

Annual Review of Phytopathology

Volumn 44, Issue , 2006, Pages 261-282

  Ngugi, Henry K ^a   Scherm, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecology; Epidemiology; Gynoecium; Host sterilization; Reproductive disease; Systemic infection

Indexed keywords

FLOWER; FUNGUS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; REVIEW;

FLOWERS; FUNGI; PLANT DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 33748951603     PISSN: 00664286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.phyto.44.070505.143405     Document Type: Review

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