Can vessel dimension explain tolerance toward fungal vascular wilt diseases in woody plants? Lessons from dutch elm disease and esca disease in grapevine

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages

  Pouzoulet, Jérôme ^a   Pivovaroff, Alexandria L ^a   Santiago, Louis S ^a   Rolshausen, Philippe E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Compartmentalization; Esca; Grapevine trunk diseases; Phaeomoniella chlamydospora; Vascular wilt; Xylem morphology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979500268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00253     Document Type: Article

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