Prospects for advancing defense to cereal rusts through genetical genomics

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Ballini, Elsa ^a,b   Lauter, Nick ^a   Wise, Roger ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONTPELLIER SUPAGRO   (France)

Author keywords

Barley; Cereal rusts; EQTL; Parallel expression; Puccinia; Triticeae; Wheat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900849096     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00117     Document Type: Review

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