Measuring quantitative virulence in the wheat pathogen zymoseptoria tritici using high-throughput automated image analysis

Phytopathology

Volumn 104, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 985-992

  Stewart, Ethan L ^a   McDonald, Bruce A ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aggressiveness; Disease assessment; Mycosphaerella graminicola

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSIVENESS; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; AUTOMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE ASSESSMENT; FUNGUS SPORE; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; REPRODUCIBILITY; VIRULENCE; WHEAT; ZYMOSEPTORIA TRITICI;

AGGRESSIVENESS; DISEASE ASSESSMENT; MYCOSPHAERELLA GRAMINICOLA;

ASCOMYCOTA; AUTOMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPORES, FUNGAL; TRITICUM; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84907175532     PISSN: 0031949X     EISSN: 19437684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PHYTO-11-13-0328-R     Document Type: Article

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