A new species of Zygophiala associated with the flyspeck complex on apple from China

Mycological Progress

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 151-155

  Ma, Yongqiang ^a,b   Zhang, Rong ^a   Sun, Guangyu ^a   Zhu, Haixia ^a   Tang, Ming ^a   Batzer, Jean C ^c   Gleason, Mark L ^c  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Gansu Academy of Agricultural Sciences   (China)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flyspeck; Internal transcribed spacer rDNA; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; MALUS X DOMESTICA; ZYGOPHIALA;

EID: 77952430584     PISSN: 1617416X     EISSN: 18618952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11557-009-0635-z     Document Type: Review

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