On the Trail of a Cereal Killer: Exploring the Biology of Magnaporthe grisea

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue , 2003, Pages 177-202

  Talbot, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cAMP; Fungal genomics; MAPK; Pyricularia oryzae; Retrotransposon; Rice blast

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

BARLEY; CEREAL; CROP; CULTIVAR; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; GROWTH INHIBITION; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; RICE; WHEAT;

GENOME, FUNGAL; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MAGNAPORTHE; MYCOSES; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

FUNGI; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; MAGNAPORTHE; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; POACEAE; PYRICULARIA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0242693135     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.57.030502.090957     Document Type: Review

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