Environmental signals controlling sexual development of the corn smut fungus Ustilago maydis through the transcriptional regulator Prf1

Plant Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1293-1305

  Andreas Hartmann, H ^a,c   Krüger, Julia ^a   Lottspeich, Friedrich ^a,b   Kahmann, Regine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT; FUNGAL GROWTH; MYCOSIS; PLANT DISEASE;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; USTILAGO MAYDIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0345237267     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.11.7.1293     Document Type: Article

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