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Evolution of pathogenicity in Alternaria plant pathogens

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Acknowledgements

I express my deepest gratitude to the late Drs. Yasuji Asada and Syoyo Nishimura and to Drs. Isao Matsumoto, Olen Yoder, B. Gilian Turgeon, Charlotte R. Bronson, Keisuke Kohmoto, Hiroshi Otani, Takashi Tsuge, Tsutomu Arie, Masatoki Taga for their guidance and instruction in my research since I started in the field of plant pathology. I also express my sincere thanks to Drs. Mikihiro Yamamoto, Kazuya Akimitsu, Pyoyun Park, Yasuo Itoh, Hirofumi Yoshioka, Toru Teraoka, Hiromitsu Moriyama, Akihiro Itai, Yoshitaka Takano, Hironori Kaminaka, Hajime Akamatsu, Daisuke Yamagishi, Yasunori Akagi, Mayumi Egusa, Kazumi Takao, Salamiah, Richard D. Johnson, and Linda Johnson for advice, friendship and ongoing research collaborations. I am also grateful to Drs. Seiji Ouchi, Hitoshi Kunoh, Shigeyuki Mayama, Shinji Tsuyumu, Tomonori Shiraishi, Yasuyuki Kubo, and Yuki Ichinose for their encouraging suggestions on my research. The research project was completed through the contributions of researchers at national and regional institutes, companies, domestic and foreign universities, and students and staff at the Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture and The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Tottori University. The research was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.

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Kodama, M. Evolution of pathogenicity in Alternaria plant pathogens. J Gen Plant Pathol 85, 471–474 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10327-019-00877-3

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