Role of the transcriptional activator XlnR of Fusarium oxysporum in regulation of xylanase genes and virulence

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 977-985

  Calero Nieto, Fernando ^a   Di Pietro, Antonio ^a   Roncero, M Isabel G ^a   Hera, Concepcion ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRULENCE;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIRULENCE;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM SUBSP. SPELTA;

EID: 34547125584     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-20-8-0977     Document Type: Article

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