Identification of genes differentially expressed in the phytopathogenic fungus Cercospora nicotianae between cercosporin toxin-resistant and -susceptible strains

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 275, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 326-337

  Herrero, Sonia ^a   Amnuaykanjanasin, Alongkorn ^a   Daub, Margaret E ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cercospora; Cercosporin resistance; Suppressive subtractive hybridization

Indexed keywords

CERCOSPORIN; MYCOTOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CERCOSPORA NICOTIANAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WILD TYPE;

ASCOMYCOTA; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE LIBRARY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PERYLENE; PROTEIN KINASE C; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CERCOSPORA; CERCOSPORA NICOTIANAE; FUNGI;

EID: 34548764378     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00903.x     Document Type: Article

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