Cloning and characterization of a melanin biosynthetic THR1 reductase gene essential for appressorial penetration of Colletotrichum Lagenarium

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 323-329

  Perpetua, N S ^a,c   Kubo, Y ^a,b   Yasuda, N ^a,d   Takano, Y ^a   Furusawa, I ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Cotton Res Development Institute ^*  (Philippines)

^d Hokuriku Natl Agr Expt Stn   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; ASPERGILLUS PARASITICUS; COLLETOTRICHUM LAGENARIUM; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; FUNGI IMPERFECTI; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA;

EID: 0030198840     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-9-0323     Document Type: Article

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