Relationship between temperature optima and secreted protease activities of three Pythium species and pathogenicity toward plant and animal hosts

Mycological Research

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 96-103

  Davis, Diana J ^a   Lanter, Kelli ^a   Makselan, Stephanie ^a   Bonati, Christopher ^a   Asbrock, Paige ^a   Ravishankar, J P ^b   Money, Nicholas P ^b  

^a College of Mount St Joseph ^*  (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crop protection; Invasive hyphal growth; Medical mycology; Oomycota; Straminipila

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS; GROWTH RATE; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; FUNGI; LEPTOMITALES; MAMMALIA; OOMYCETES; PYTHIUM; PYTHIUM GRAMINICOLA; PYTHIUM GRANDISPORANGIUM; PYTHIUM INSIDIOSUM;

PEPTIDE HYDROLASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PYTHIUM; SECRETION; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PLANT DISEASES; PYTHIUM; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33745349892     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: 14698102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mycres.2005.08.009     Document Type: Article

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