Ahmed I. S. Ahmed 1 and Youn Su Lee 2*
1Plant Pathology Unit, Plant Protection Department, Desert Research Center, Cairo 11753, Egypt
2Division of Bioresource Sciences, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 24341, Korea
Correspondence to younslee@kangwon.ac.kr
Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor J Mycol) December, 2015, 43(4):207-215.
https://doi.org/10.4489/KJM.2015.43.4.207
Received: December 7, 2015; Revised: December 8, 2015; Accepted: December 8, 2015
Published: December, 2015.
© The Korean Society of Mycology
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