Class V chitin synthase determines pathogenesis in the vascular wilt fungus Fusarium oxysporum and mediates resistance to plant defence compounds

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 257-266

  Madrid, Marta P ^a   Di Pietro, Antonio ^a   Roncero, M Isabel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITIN SYNTHASE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MYOSIN; TOMATINE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; HOST RESISTANCE; MORPHOLOGY; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TOMATO; WILD TYPE;

CHITIN SYNTHASE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT ROOTS; VIRULENCE;

FUNGI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; INSERTION SEQUENCES; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0037221868     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03299.x     Document Type: Article

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