Plant Pathogenic Fungi: Taxonomy, Phylogeny and Morphology，2nd Edition
A special issue of Journal of Fungi (ISSN 2309-608X). This special issue belongs to the section "Fungal Evolution, Biodiversity and Systematics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2025 | Viewed by 45
Special Issue Editor
Interests: taxonomy; molecular systematics; fungal molecular genetics; molecular genetics of oomycetes
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Dear Colleagues,
The Special Issue "Plant Pathogenic Fungi: Taxonomy, Phylogeny and Morphology，2nd Edition" aims to present recent research on all aspects of filamentous fungi and oomycetes.
The Special Issue is a gold open access journal that publishes fundamental and advanced applied research on the fungal taxonomy, biodiversity, genetics, genomics, molecular biology, biochemistry and associative interactions of microbes.
Reviews, original research, and communications will be welcome.
Prof. Dr. Xiuguo Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- molecular phylogeny
- fungal taxonomy
- biodiversity
- fungal genetics
- molecular biology
- interactions of microbes
- filamentous fungi
- oomycetes
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