Obligate biotroph parasitism: Can we link genomes to lifestyles?

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 448-457

  Kemen, Eric ^a,b   Jones, Jonathan D G ^a  

^a SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; EVOLUTION; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGUS; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; OOMYCETES; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FUNGI; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; OOMYCETES; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPORES, FUNGAL;

FUNGI; OOMYCETES;

EID: 84864389068     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2012.04.005     Document Type: Review

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