The interaction of avirulence and resistance gene products in flax rust disease – providing advances in rust researchFootnote^†

^†Contribution to the symposium “Signalling in Plant-Pathogen Interactions” held during the Canadian Phytopathological Society Annual Meeting, 22–25 June 2009, Winnipeg, MB.

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