Phytophthora ramorum: A pathogen with a remarkably wide host range causing sudden oak death on oaks and ramorum blight on woody ornamentals

Molecular Plant Pathology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 729-740

  Grünwald, Niklaus J ^a   Goss, Erica M ^a   Press, Caroline M ^a  

^a HORTICULTURAL CROPS RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; OAK; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYTOPHTHORA; PLANT DISEASE; REVIEW;

PHYTOPHTHORA; PLANT DISEASES; QUERCUS;

CAMELLIA; LITHOCARPUS; OOMYCETES; PHYTOPHTHORA; PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM; PYTHIACEAE; PYTHIALES; QUERCUS; QUERCUS AGRIFOLIA; RHODODENDRON; STRAMENOPILES; SYRINGA; VIBURNUM;

EID: 54049115452     PISSN: 14646722     EISSN: 13643703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2008.00500.x     Document Type: Review

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