Recent fungal diseases of crop plants: Is lateral gene transfer a common theme?

A cursory glance at old textbooks of plant pathology reveals that the diseases which are the current scourge of agriculture in many parts of the world are a different set from those that were prominent 50 or 100 years ago. Why have these new diseases arisen? The traditional explanations subscribe to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Oliver, Richard, Solomon, P.
Format: Journal Article
Published: AMER PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOC 2008
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/9566