Fusarium oxysporum gas1 encodes a putative β-1,3-glucanosyltransferase required for virulence on tomato plants

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1140-1147

  Caracuel, Zaira ^a   Martínez Rocha, Ana Lilia ^a   Di Pietro, Antonio ^a   Madrid, Marta P ^a   Roncero, M Isabel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Glucan

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLUCAN ENDO 1,3 BETA GLUCOSIDASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL WALL; ENZYMOLOGY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; TOMATO; VIRULENCE;

CELL WALL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE TARGETING; GENES, FUNGAL; GLUCAN ENDO-1,3-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDASE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; HYPHAE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLANT DISEASES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MAMMALIA;

EID: 26944454790     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-18-1140     Document Type: Article

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