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Genetics of Phytopathology: Phytopathogenic Fungi: Genetic Aspects of Host-Pathogen Interaction

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Part of the book series: Progress in Botany ((BOTANY,volume 61))

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The molecular biology of fungal pathogenicity has been reviewed several times within this series. This chapter is an update of the last of these reviews (Tudzynski and Weltring 1993; Tudzynski and Tudzynski 1996, 1998) and deals exclusively with the literature of the last two years. Since even for this limited period of time the amount of literature in this field is enormous, we will focus on some interesting aspects of host-pathogen interaction, and not attempt to achieve a complete literature survey. Especially, we will not summarize papers dealing with the application of various molecular methods (mostly PCR-based) for the identification and qualification of pathogenic fungi in infected tissues, for characterization of subgroups and races of fungi and mapping of genes (e.g., a pathogenicity gene in Ophiostoma novo-ulmi, Et-Touil et al. 1999).

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