The illustrated life cycle of Microbotryum on the host plant Silene latifolia

Botany

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 875-885

  Schäfer, Angela Maria ^a   Kemler, Martin ^a   Bauer, Robert ^b   Begerow, Dominik ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basidial development; Electron microscopy; Infection process; Microbotryum; Smut

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; DICOTYLEDON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLORAL TRAIT; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; GERMINATION; HOST PLANT; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE HISTORY; MATING BEHAVIOR; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; SPORE; XYLEM;

CARYOPHYLLACEAE; COTYLEDON (GENUS); FUNGI; MICROBOTRYUM; MICROBOTRYUM LYCHNIDIS-DIOICAE; SILENE; SILENE LATIFOLIA;

EID: 77958122467     PISSN: 19162804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/B10-061     Document Type: Article

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