Molecular characterization of Turkish isolates of Pear blister canker viroid and assessment of the sequence variability of this viroid

Journal of Plant Pathology

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 813-819

  Yesilcollou, S ^a   Minoia, S ^b   Torchetti, E M ^b   Kaymak, S ^c   Gumus, M ^a   Myrta, A ^d   Navarro, B ^b   di Serio, F ^b  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE PLANT PROTECTION   (Italy)

^c E irdir Horticultural Research Institute   (Turkey)

^d Certis Europe   (Italy)

Author keywords

Multiple sequence alignments; Pome fruit viroids; RNA sequence variability; Survey

Indexed keywords

PYRUS; VIROIDS;

EID: 79955158682     PISSN: 11254653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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