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Relatedness of Macrophomina phaseolina isolates from tallgrass prairie, maize, soybean and sorghum.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jan 2010
Saleh A A, Ahmed H U, Todd T C, Travers S E, Zeller K A, Leslie J F, Garrett K A
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Agricultural and wild ecosystems may interact through shared pathogens such as Macrophomina phaseolina, a generalist clonal fungus with more than 284 plant hosts that is likely to become more important under climate change scenarios of increased heat and drought stress. To evaluate the degree of subdivision in populations of M. phaseolina in Kansas agriculture and wildlands, we compared 143 isolates from maize...
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