Quiescent and necrotrophic lifestyle choice during postharvest disease development

Annual Review of Phytopathology

Volumn 51, Issue , 2013, Pages 155-176

  Prusky, Dov ^a   Alkan, Noam ^b   Mengiste, Tesfaye ^c   Fluhr, Robert ^b  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fruit ripening diseases; Fungal quiescence; Storage diseases

Indexed keywords

PHYTOHORMONE;

ARTICLE; CELL WALL; FRUIT; FUNGUS; FUNGUS SPORE; GENOMICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CELL WALL; FRUIT; FUNGI; GENOMICS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 84881465306     PISSN: 00664286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-phyto-082712-102349     Document Type: Article

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