Venturia inaequalis: The causal agent of apple scab

Molecular Plant Pathology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 105-122

  Bowen, Joanna K ^a   Mesarich, Carl H ^a,b   Bus, Vincent G M ^a   Beresford, Robert M ^a   Plummer, Kim M ^c   Templeton, Matthew D ^a  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; HOST RANGE; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENE; STATISTICS;

ASCOMYCOTA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, PLANT; HOST SPECIFICITY; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MALUS; PLANT DISEASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ASCOMYCOTA; DOTHIDEOMYCETES; FUNGI; MALOIDEAE; MALUS; MALUS X DOMESTICA; PEZIZOMYCOTINA; SPILOCAEA; VENTURIA (FUNGUS); VENTURIA INAEQUALIS; VENTURIACEAE;

EID: 78650763647     PISSN: 14646722     EISSN: 13643703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2010.00656.x     Document Type: Article

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