Transmissible Mitochondrial Hypovirulence in a Natural Population of Cryphonectria parasitica

A cytoplasmically transmissible hypovirulence syndrome has been identified in virus-free strains of the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica isolated from healing cankers on American chestnut trees in southwestern Michigan. The syndrome is associated with symptoms of fungal senescence, in...

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Main Authors: Dipnath Baidyaroy, David H. Huber, Dennis W. Fulbright, Helmut Bertrand
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The American Phytopathological Society 2000-01-01
Series:Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
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Online Access:https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/MPMI.2000.13.1.88