Transcription of sterol Δ5,6-desaturase and sterol 14α-demethylase is induced in the plant pathogenic ascomycete, Leptosphaeria maculans, during treatment with a triazole fungicide

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 81-87

  Griffiths, Katherine M ^a   Howlett, Barbara J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ascomycete; Ergosterol biosynthesis; Flutriafol; Plant pathogen; Triazole fungicide

Indexed keywords

24 METHYLENEDIHYDROLANOSTEROL; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENZYME PRECURSOR; ERGOSTEROL; FUNGICIDE; STEROL 14ALPHA DEMETHYLASE; STEROL DELTA 5,6 DESATURASE; STEROL DERIVATIVE; TRIAZOLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INDUCTION; LEPTOSPHAERIA MACULANS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASCOMYCOTA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PLANTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRIAZOLES;

FUNGI; LEPTOSPHAERIA; LEPTOSPHAERIA MACULANS;

EID: 0037137244     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)01038-8     Document Type: Article

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