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Possible Applications of Phytotoxins

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Phytotoxins and Plant Pathogenesis

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Abstract

Usually, when we begin to study a phytotoxin we are primarily interested in determining what its role is in plant disease production. However, once the structure and how it acts have been elucidated or even before, we frequently find that the toxin has utility in other areas, generally because of its unusual specificity — they are in a sense “silver bullets” sensu Paul Erlicht — and biological activity at low concentrations.

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  1. ARS, USDA and Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

    R. D. Durbin

  2. Dipartimento di Patologia Vegetale, Università Bari, Italy

    A. Graniti

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  1. Dipartimento di Patologia vegetale, Università di Bari, Bari, Italia

    Antonio Graniti

  2. ARS/USDA and Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

    Richard D. Durbin

  3. Dipartimento di Scienze biochimiche, Università ‘La Sapienza’, Roma, Italia

    Alessandro Ballio

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Durbin, R.D., Graniti, A. (1989). Possible Applications of Phytotoxins. In: Graniti, A., Durbin, R.D., Ballio, A. (eds) Phytotoxins and Plant Pathogenesis. NATO ASI Series, vol 27. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73178-5_25

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