Nutrition acquisition strategies during fungal infection of plants

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 266, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 65-74

  Divon, Hege H ^a,b   Fluhr, Robert ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fungal nutrition; Nitrogen and carbon regulation; Plant pathogen

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL PLANT DISEASE; FUNGAL SPORE GERMINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; NUTRITION; PLANT METABOLISM; PLANT NUTRIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

CARBON; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; NITROGEN; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; SPORES, FUNGAL;

FUNGI;

EID: 33845536987     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00504.x     Document Type: Review

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