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SUBMITTER: Govers LL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5013788 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Govers Laura L LL Man In 't Veld Willem A WA Meffert Johan P JP Bouma Tjeerd J TJ van Rijswick Patricia C J PC Heusinkveld Jannes H T JH Orth Robert J RJ van Katwijk Marieke M MM van der Heide Tjisse T
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20160801 1837
Phytophthora species are potent pathogens that can devastate terrestrial plants, causing billions of dollars of damage yearly to agricultural crops and harming fragile ecosystems worldwide. Yet, virtually nothing is known about the distribution and pathogenicity of their marine relatives. This is surprising, as marine plants form vital habitats in coastal zones worldwide (i.e. mangrove forests, salt marshes, seagrass beds), and disease may be an important bottleneck for the conservation and rest ...[more]