Rapid quantification of plant-powdery mildew interactions by qPCR and conidiospore counts

Plant Methods

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Weßling, Ralf ^a   Panstruga, Ralph ^a,b  

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

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Conidiospores; Golovinomyces orontii; Powdery mildew; QPCR; Quantification

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERYSIPHALES; FUNGI; GOLOVINOMYCES ORONTII;

EID: 84871124722     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4811-8-35     Document Type: Article

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