Investigating the role of calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinases in Stagonospora nodorum

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 367-381

  Solomon, Peter S ^a   Rybak, Kasia ^a   Trengove, Robert D ^a   Oliver, Richard P ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANNITOL; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN);

ARTICLE; CPKA GENE; CPKB GENE; CULTURE MEDIUM; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROSCOPY; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS; VEGETATIVE GROWTH;

ASCOMYCOTA; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CALCIUM; CALCIUM-CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MANNITOL; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; SPORES, FUNGAL;

FUNGI; PHAEOSPHAERIA NODORUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 33749168861     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05380.x     Document Type: Article

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