Plant parasitic oomycetes such as Phytophthora species contain genes derived from three eukaryotic lineages

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 112-114

  Richards, Thomas A ^a   Talbot, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biotrophy; Endosymbiosis; Fungi; Horizontal gene transfer; Magnaporthe grisea; Osmotrophy; Phototrophy

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; OOMYCETES; PHYTOPHTHORA;

EID: 39449083612     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.2.2.3640     Document Type: Article

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