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Correlation between Cultural Characters and Pathogenicity in Ceratocystis ulmi from Britain, Europe and America

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Isolates of C. ulmi from Britain fall into two groups on the basis of cultural characters. Pathogenicity experiments show one group to be aggressive and the other to be non-aggressive. Some North American isolates resemble the aggressive isolates, while isolates from Northern Europe are non-aggressive.

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GIBBS, J., BRASIER, C. Correlation between Cultural Characters and Pathogenicity in Ceratocystis ulmi from Britain, Europe and America. Nature 241, 381–383 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/241381a0

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