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  • adjective biology Describing a parasite that needs its host to stay alive

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  • Stages A and B are generally susceptible to a high number of fungal pathogens, stage C is of intermediate resistance and stage D is not infectible by biotrophic leaf pathogens.

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  • O'Connell RJ, Panstruga R (2006) Tete and tete inside a plant cell: establishing compatibility between plants and biotrophic fungi and oomycetes.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sumanti Gupta et al. 2010

  • Advancement in agricultural research has drawn the scientific community towards understanding the host colonization mechanism of biotrophic fungi.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sumanti Gupta et al. 2010

  • However, in the present study, biotrophic relationship between

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  • F. oxysporum f.sp. ciceri in chickpea is not governed by the classical SA dependent defense responses operational in traditional plant-biotrophic encounters.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sumanti Gupta et al. 2010

  • However, in the present study, biotrophic relationship between

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sumanti Gupta et al. 2010

  • Kankanala P, Czymmek K, Valent B (2007) Roles for rice membrane dynamics and plasmodesmata during biotrophic invasion by the blast fungus.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Chang-Jin Park et al. 2010

  • Glazebrook J (2005) Contrasting mechanism of defense against biotrophic and necrotrophic pathogens.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sumanti Gupta et al. 2010

  • Kankanala P, Czymmek K, Valent B (2007) Roles for rice membrane dynamics and plasmodesmata during biotrophic invasion by the blast fungus.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Chang-Jin Park et al. 2010

  • However, in the present study, biotrophic relationship between

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sumanti Gupta et al. 2010

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