The role of melanin in the antagonistic interaction between the apple scab pathogen Venturia inaequalis and Microsphaeropsis ochracea

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 349-358

  El Bassam, Souad ^a   Benhamou, Nicole ^a   Carisse, Odile ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apple scab disease; Biological control; Fungal interaction; Mycoparasitism

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELLS; FRUITS; FUNGICIDES; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CELL WALLS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

1,8 NAPHTHALENEDIOL; DOPA; FUNGICIDE; MELANIN; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE; PIGMENT; PYROQUILON; SCYTALONE; TRICYCLAZOLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DOPA MELANIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; NAPHTHOL DERIVATIVE; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ANTAGONISM; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; DISEASE CONTROL; FUNGAL DISEASE; MYCOPARASITE;

ALBINISM; APPLE SCAB; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACTION; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; INFRARED RADIATION; MICROSPHAEROPSIS OCHRACEA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VENTURIA INAEQUALIS; APPLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE;

ASCOMYCOTA; DIHYDROXYPHENYLALANINE; MALUS; MELANINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NAPHTHOLS; PLANT DISEASES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; THIAZOLES;

ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGI; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; MICROSPHAEROPSIS; PYRICULARIA; VENTURIA INAEQUALIS;

EID: 0036000367     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/w02-030     Document Type: Article

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