Look before you leap: Memoirs of a "cell biological" plant pathologist

Annual Review of Phytopathology

Volumn 47, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-13

  Heath, Michèle C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evolution; Host parasite specificity; Hypersensitive response; Microscopy; Nonhost resistance; Rust fungi; Specific elicitor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOTANY; FUNGUS; HISTORY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY;

BOTANY; FUNGI; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS;

FUNGI; UREDINALES;

EID: 70350212666     PISSN: 00664286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-phyto-080508-081857     Document Type: Article

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