Rust Effectors

Effectors in Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 155-193

  Duplessis, Sébastien ^a   Joly, David L ^b   Dodds, Peter N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Barley stripe mosaic virus (BSMV); Common in fungal extracellular and membrane(CFEM); Expressed sequence tags (ESTs); Haustoria Formation; Rust Effectors; Virus induced gene silencing (VIGS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865603668     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119949138.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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