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Exploring the origin of crop pathogens: host-specific toxin-producing pathogens as a case study

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I express my deepest gratitude to all my colleagues and students for their enthusiastic collaboration and cooperation with this research. Most of this work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for research projects from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan.

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Tsuge, T. Exploring the origin of crop pathogens: host-specific toxin-producing pathogens as a case study. J Gen Plant Pathol 85, 458–462 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10327-019-00874-6

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