Of Smuts, Blasts, Mildews, and Blights: cAMP Signaling in Phytopathogenic Fungi

Annual Review of Phytopathology

Volumn 41, Issue , 2003, Pages 399-427

  Lee, Nancy ^a   D'Souza, Cletus A ^a   Kronstad, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Appressorium; Pathogenesis; Protein kinase A; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP;

CLASSIFICATION; FUNGUS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CYCLIC AMP; FUNGI; PLANTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BLUMERIA GRAMINIS; COLLETOTRICHUM; CRYPHONECTRIA; CRYPHONECTRIA PARASITICA; ERYSIPHE; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; MAGNAPORTHE; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TEREBRANTIA; TRICHODERMA; USTILAGO; USTILAGO MAYDIS;

EID: 0242658632     PISSN: 00664286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.phyto.41.052002.095728     Document Type: Review

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