Hypovirus Molecular Biology. From Koch's Postulates to Host Self-Recognition Genes that Restrict Virus Transmission.

Advances in Virus Research

Volumn 86, Issue , 2013, Pages 109-147

  Dawe, Angus L ^a   Nuss, Donald L ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Chestnut blight; Cryphonectria parasitica; Hypovirulence; Hypovirus; Mycovirus; RNA silencing; Vegetative incompatibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874972038     PISSN: 00653527     EISSN: 15578399     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394315-6.00005-2     Document Type: Chapter

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