pH modulation differs during sunflower cotyledon colonization by the two closely related necrotrophic fungi Botrytis cinerea and Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

Molecular Plant Pathology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 568-578

  Billon Grand, Geneviève ^a   Rascle, Christine ^a   Droux, Michel ^a   Rollins, Jeffrey A ^b   Poussereau, Nathalie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BOTRYTIS; COTYLEDON; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PH; SUNFLOWER;

ASCOMYCOTA; BOTRYTIS; COTYLEDON; HELIANTHUS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION;

BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; FUNGI; HELIANTHUS; SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM;

EID: 84863552831     PISSN: 14646722     EISSN: 13643703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2011.00772.x     Document Type: Article

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