Searching for Alternative Hosts and Determining the Variation in the Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) Region of Phakopsora pachyrhizi and the Implications for Currently Used Molecular Diagnostic Assays.

Phakopsora pachyrhizi, the causal agent of soybean rust (SBR), is a serious disease on soybeans.The objectives of this project were to identify additional alternative and possible overwintering hosts of the SBR pathogen and to validate the current detection assays for SBR. For the first objective, w...

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Main Author: Rush, Tomas Allen
Other Authors: Aime, M. Catherine
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2012
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04192012-180014/