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Visualizing and quantifying Fusarium oxysporum in the plant host.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Dec 2012
Diener Andrew
Abstract excerpt
Host-specific forms of Fusarium oxysporum infect the roots of numerous plant species. I present a novel application of familiar methodology to visualize and quantify F. oxysporum in roots. Infection in the roots of Arabidopsis thaliana, tomato, and cotton was detected with colorimetric reagents that are substrates for Fusarium spp.-derived arabinofuranosidase and N-acetyl-glucosaminidase activities and without...
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