Alternaria host-selective toxins: Determinant factors of plant disease

Journal of General Plant Pathology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 109-122

  Akimitsu, Kazuya ^a   Tsuge, Takashi ^b   Kodama, Motoichiro ^c   Yamamoto, Mikihiro ^d   Otani, Hiroshi ^c  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conditionally dispensable chromosome; Effector; Host selectivity; Pathogenicity; Secondary metabolite; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; ALTERNARIA KIKUCHIANA; FUNGI; PYRUS; PYRUS PYRIFOLIA VAR. CULTA;

EID: 84896706461     PISSN: 13452630     EISSN: 1610739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10327-013-0498-7     Document Type: Review

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