Sexual Reproduction in the Fungal Foliar Pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici Is Driven by Antagonistic Density Dependence Mechanisms

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 110-123

  Suffert, Frédéric ^a   Delestre, Ghislain ^a   Gélisse, Sandrine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Allocation resource; Asexual multiplication; Competition; Fungal pathogen; Plant disease epidemiology; Sexual reproduction

Indexed keywords

ASCOMYCETES; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; VIRULENCE; WHEAT;

ASCOMYCOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC FITNESS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PLANT DISEASES; REPRODUCTION; SPORES, FUNGAL; TRITICUM; VIRULENCE;

EID: 85048054434     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-018-1211-3     Document Type: Article

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