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Lexington, Kentucky Area United States
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Pos Doutorado no Exterior - Ciência Sem Fronteiras
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Agriculture / Forests / Fisheries
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Effector Diversity in Colletotrichum graminicola
The phytopathogenic fungus Colletotrichum graminicola is the causal agent of maize leaf and stalk anthracnose, resulting in significant economic losses in North and South America, and worldwide . Anthracnose is primarily managed by the use of quantitative resistance. However this type of resistance, particularly against stalk anthracnose,is unreliable since it becomes less effective in mature tissues,when carbohydrates become depleted in the stalk during grain fill, and whenever plants are stressed. It is estimated that stalk anthracnose causes losses of 5-10 percent of potential yield annually, worth almost 3 billion dollars in the Unit...
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