Diverse sources of infection and cryptic recombination revealed in South AfricanDiplodia pinea populations

Fungal Biology

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 112-120

  Bihon, Wubetu ^a   Slippers, Bernard ^a   Burgess, Treena ^a,b   Wingfield, Michael J ^a   Wingfield, Brenda D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cryptic sexual reproduction; Forest pathology; Invasive fungal pathogen; Population genetics; SSR markers

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALLELE; BIOMARKER; CLONE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRYPSIS; ENDOPHYTE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INVASIVE SPECIES; PLANTATION; RECOMBINATION; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; SOUTH AFRICA;

ASCOMYCOTA; DNA, FUNGAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SOUTH AFRICA;

SOUTH AFRICA;

DIPLODIA PINEA; FUNGI;

EID: 84655162802     PISSN: 18786146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2011.10.006     Document Type: Article

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