Expression of pectate lyase from Colletotrichum gloeosporioides in C. magna promotes pathogenicity

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 887-891

  Yakoby, Nir ^a,b   Freeman, Stanley ^a   Dinoor, Amos ^b   Keen, Noel T ^c   Prusky, Dov ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Pectolytic enzymes

Indexed keywords

AVOCADO; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL GENE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PATHOGENICITY; PECTATE LYASE GENE; WATERMELON; WILD RELATIVE;

CITRULLUS LANATUS VAR. LANATUS; COLLETOTRICHUM; COLLETOTRICHUM GLOSOSPORIOIDES; COLLETOTRICHUM MAGNA; FUNGI; GLOMERELLA CINGULATA; PERSEA AMERICANA;

EID: 0033894606     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2000.13.8.887     Document Type: Article

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