Sex at the origin: An Asian population of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae reproduces sexually

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1330-1344

  Saleh, Dounia ^a,b   Xu, Peng ^c   Shen, Ying ^d   Li, Chenguyn ^c   Adreit, Henri ^a,f   Milazzo, Joëlle ^a   RavignÉ, Virginie ^a   Bazin, Eric ^a,g   NottÉghem, Jean Loup ^e   Fournier, Elisabeth ^b   Tharreau, Didier ^a  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL PLANTS   (China)

^d CHINA NATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^e MONTPELLIER SUPAGRO   (France)

^f YUNNAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

female fertility; Magnaporthe oryzae; mating type; population genetics; recombination; sexual reproduction

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ASIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS BREEDING; FUNGAL GENE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAGNAPORTHE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTION; RICE;

ASIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; MAGNAPORTHE; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT DISEASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION;

FUNGI; MAGNAPORTHE; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; MAGNAPORTHE ORYZAE;

EID: 84862776903     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05469.x     Document Type: Article

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