The photoactivated Cercospora toxin cercosporin: Contributions to plant disease and fundamental biology

Annual Review of Phytopathology

Volumn 38, Issue , 2000, Pages 461-490

  Daub, M E ^a   Ehrenshaft, M ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active oxygen; Fungal toxins; Photosensitization; Polyketide; Singlet oxygen

Indexed keywords

1,4 BENZOQUINONE; ACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; CERCOSPORIN; DISEASE MODEL; HOST PLANT; MYCOTOXIN; PATHOGENESIS; PERYLENE; PHOTOACTIVATION; PYRIDOXINE;

ANIMALIA; CERCOSPORA; FUNGI;

EID: 0033738888     PISSN: 00664286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.phyto.38.1.461     Document Type: Review

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