Functional expression of the gene cu, encoding the phytotoxic hydrophobin cerato-ulmin, enables Ophiostoma quercus, a nonpathogen on elm, to cause symptoms of Dutch elm disease

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 43-53

  Del Sorbo, Giovanni ^a   Scala, Felice ^a   Parrella, Giuseppe ^b   Lorito, Matteo ^a   Comparini, Cecilia ^b   Ruocco, Michelina ^a   Scala, Aniello ^b  

^a Dipartimento ARBOPAVE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERATO ULMIN; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; INOCULATION; MYCOSIS; PLANT MICROORGANISM INTERACTION; TOXIN; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; OPHIOSTOMA NOVO; OPHIOSTOMA NOVO-ULMI; OPHIOSTOMA QUERCUS; OPHIOSTOMA ULMI; QUERCUS; ULMUS;

EID: 0033961719     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/mpmi.2000.13.1.43     Document Type: Article

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