Current status of the taxonomic position of Fusarium oxysporum formae specialis cubense within the Fusarium oxysporum complex

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 533-542

  Fourie, G ^a   Steenkamp, E T ^a   Ploetz, R C ^b   Gordon, T R ^c   Viljoen, A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Co evolution; Horizontal gene transfer; Species diversity; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; CULTIVAR IDENTIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; FUSARIUM WILT; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMIC RANK;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; ANGIOSPERMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FUSARIUM; PLANT DISEASES; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM COMPLEX;

EID: 79953120984     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.01.012     Document Type: Review

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