Survey and expression analysis of five new chitin synthase genes in the biotrophic rust fungus Puccinia graminis

Current Genetics

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 295-305

  Broeker, Katja ^a   Fehser, Sabine ^a   Moerschbacher, Bruno M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basidiomycete; Biotroph; Cell wall; Chitin synthase; Puccinia graminis; Rust fungus

Indexed keywords

CHITIN SYNTHASE; ISOENZYME; POLYMER;

ALLELE; BASIDIOMYCETES; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC MODEL; GROWTH CURVE; INTRON; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISM; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLANT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; REVIEW; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; CHITIN SYNTHASE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRITICUM;

FUNGI; PUCCINIA GRAMINIS; UREDINALES;

EID: 33750329848     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-006-0094-x     Document Type: Review

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