Cryptic fungal infections: The hidden agenda of plant pathogens

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Stergiopoulos, Loannis ^a   Gordon, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptic infection; Disease; Fungi; Pathogenesis; Plant; Symbiosis; Virulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907577295     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00506     Document Type: Article

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