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Cryptosexuality and the genetic diversity paradox in coffee rust, Hemileia vastatrix.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Carvalho Carlos Roberto, Fernandes Ronaldo C, Carvalho Guilherme Mendes Almeida, Barreto Robert W, Evans Harry C
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BACKGROUND: Despite the fact that coffee rust was first investigated scientifically more than a century ago, and that the disease is one of the major constraints to coffee production--constantly changing the socio-economic and historical landscape of the crop--critical aspects of the life cycle of the pathogen, Hemileia vastatrix, remain unclear. The asexual urediniospores are regarded as the only functional...
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