Botrytis cinerea virulence is drastically reduced after disruption of chitin synthase class III gene (Bcchs3a)

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1310-1321

  Soulié, Marie Christine ^a   Perino, Claude ^a   Piffeteau, Annie ^b   Choquer, Mathias ^b   Malfatti, Pierrette ^a   Cimerman, Agnès ^a   Kunz, Caroline ^a   Boccara, Martine ^a   Vidal Cros, Anne ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITIN SYNTHASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN BCCHS3A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BOTRYTIS CINEREA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FUNGAL PLANT DISEASE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; GRAPE; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BOTRYTIS; CHITIN SYNTHASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUTATION; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; VIRULENCE; VITIS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; FUNGI; VITIS VINIFERA;

EID: 33645843321     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2006.00711.x     Document Type: Article

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