Gene discovery and gene expression in the rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe grisea: Analysis of expressed sequence tags

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1337-1347

  Ebbole, Daniel J ^a   Jin, Yuan ^a   Thon, Michael ^a   Pan, Huaqin ^b   Bhattarai, Eric ^a   Thomas, Terry ^a   Dean, Ralph ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Plant pathogen

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUM; GIBBERELLA ZEAE; MAGNAPORTHE; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; MYXOGASTRIA; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 8844227515     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2004.17.12.1337     Document Type: Article

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