Carbon catabolite repression in plant pathogenic fungi: Isolation and characterization of the Gibberella fujikuroi and Botrytis cinerea creA genes

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 9-15

  Tudzynski, Bettina ^a   Liu, Songjie ^a   Kelly, Joan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Botrytis cinerea; Carbon regulation; Complementation; CreA gene; Gibberella fujikuroi; Gibberellin production; Glucose oxidase formation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BOTRYTIS CINEREA; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GIBBERELLA FUJIKUROI; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BOTRYTIS; CARBON; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GIBBERELLA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, FUNGAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ASPERGILLUS; BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; BOTRYTIS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; GIBBERELLA; GIBBERELLA FUJIKUROI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033969181     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00012-4     Document Type: Article

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