FoSTUA, encoding a basic helix-loop-helix protein, differentially regulates development of three kinds of asexual spores, macroconidia, microconidia, and chlamydospores, in the fungal plant pathogen Fusarium oxysporum

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1412-1422

  Ohara, Toshiaki ^a,b   Tsuge, Takashi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Sankyo Agro Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; STUA PROTEIN, FUNGUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS SPORE; FUSARIUM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE VECTOR; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TIME;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUSARIUM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPORES, FUNGAL; TIME FACTORS;

ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM;

EID: 11144258688     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.3.6.1412-1422.2004     Document Type: Article

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