Smuts to the Power of Three: Biotechnology, Biotrophy, and Basic Biology

Affiliations

¹ Matthias-Schleiden-Institute/Genetics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany.
² Department of Biology, Program on Disease Resistance, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA.
³ Forensic Science, Master of Science Forensic Science, and Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Programs, Trent University, Peterborough, ON K9L 0G2, Canada.

Editorial

Jan Schirawski et al. J Fungi (Basel). 2021.

. 2021 Aug 14;7(8):660.

doi: 10.3390/jof7080660.

¹ Matthias-Schleiden-Institute/Genetics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany.
² Department of Biology, Program on Disease Resistance, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA.
³ Forensic Science, Master of Science Forensic Science, and Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Programs, Trent University, Peterborough, ON K9L 0G2, Canada.

Abstract

Smut fungi are a large group of mainly biotrophic plant pathogens, many of which cause disease on cereal crops [...].

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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