Effector proteins of rust fungi

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Petre, Benjamin ^a,b,c   Joly, David L ^d   Duplessis, Sébastien ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

Effectoromics; Genomics; Pucciniales; Rust fungi; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907371743     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00416     Document Type: Review

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