Trehalose synthesis and metabolism are required at different stages of plant infection by Magnaporthe grisea

EMBO Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 225-235

  Foster, Andrew J ^a,b   Jenkinson, Joanna M ^a   Talbot, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Magnaporthe grisea; Metabolism; Trehalase; Virulence

Indexed keywords

TREHALASE; TREHALOSE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE EXPRESSION; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICE; SPOROGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENES, FUNGAL; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MAGNAPORTHE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; ORYZA SATIVA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TREHALASE; TREHALOSE; VIRULENCE;

FUNGI; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA;

EID: 0037439083     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg018     Document Type: Article

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