Monitoring fungal viability and development in plants infected with colletotrichum higginsianum by quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction

Journal of General Plant Pathology

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-6

  Narusaka, Mari ^a   Shiraishi, Tomonori ^b   Iwabuchi, Masaki ^a   Narusaka, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a Research Institute for Biological Science OKAYAMA   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Actin; Arabidopsis thaliana; Brassica rapa; Colletotrichum higginsianum; Quantitative reverse transcription PCR

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRASSICA RAPA; BRASSICA RAPA SUBSP. RAPA; COLLETOTRICHUM; COLLETOTRICHUM HIGGINSIANUM;

EID: 75549083896     PISSN: 13452630     EISSN: 1610739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10327-009-0211-z     Document Type: Article

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