The Effectors of Smut Fungi

Effectors in Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 77-99

  Doehlemann, Gunther ^a   Schipper, Kerstin ^a   Kahmann, Regine ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comparative genomics; Effector; Organ specificity; Plant defenses; Regulation; Smut fungi; Ustilago maydis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879495450     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119949138.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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