Sexual reproduction in aspergillus flavus sclerotia: Acquisition of novel alleles from soil populations and uniparental mitochondrial inheritance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Horn, Bruce W ^a   Gell, Richard M ^b   Singh, Rakhi ^b   Sorensen, Ronald B ^a   Carbone, Ignazio ^a  

^a NATIONAL PEANUT RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Plant Pathology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ASCOSPORE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; CONIDIUM; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL REPRODUCTION; FUNGAL SCLEROTIUM; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MATING TYPE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SOIL ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; REPRODUCTION; SOIL;

SOIL;

ALLELES; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; REPRODUCTION; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84953776096     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146169     Document Type: Article

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