CPMK2, an SLT2-homologous mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase, is essential for pathogenesis of Claviceps purpurea on rye: Evidence for a second conserved pathogenesis-related MAP kinase cascade in phytopathogenic fungi

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 305-318

  Mey, Géraldine ^a,b   Held, Katrin ^a   Scheffer, Jan ^a   Tenberge, Klaus B ^a   Tudzynski, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL ENZYME; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; BARLEY; CELL WALL; CLAVICEPS PURPUREA; CONIDIUM; DELETION MUTANT; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOPLAST; RYE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPOROGENESIS; VEGETATION; VIRULENCE;

CLAVICEPS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MUTATION; PLANT DISEASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SECALE CEREALE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ALLIUM CEPA; CLAVICEPS; CLAVICEPS PURPUREA; FUNGI; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; MAGNAPORTHE; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SECALE CEREALE;

EID: 0036428636     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03133.x     Document Type: Article

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