Morphological, pathological and molecular variability in botryodiplodia theobromae (Botryosphaeriaceae) isolates associated with die-back and bark canker of pear trees in Punjab, India

Genetics and Molecular Research

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1217-1228

  Shah, M D ^a   Verma, K S ^b   Singh, K ^b   Kaur, R ^b  

^a SHER E KASHMIR UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY OF KASHMIR   (India)

^b PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Botryodiplodia theobromae; Molecular markers; Pear; Punjab; Variability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOTRYODIPLOPIA THEOBROMAE; CANKER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTIVAR; DIEBACK DISEASE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; INDIA; MYCELIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PEAR; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; ASCOMYCETES; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MANGIFERA; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT DISEASE; PYRUS; TREE;

BOTRYODIPLODIA THEOBROMAE; BOTRYOSPHAERIACEAE; PYRUS;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VARIATION; INDIA; MANGIFERA; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT DISEASES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PYRUS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TREES;

EID: 77954448083     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16765680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4238/vol9-2gmr812     Document Type: Article

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