Fusarium verticillioides GAP1, a gene encoding a putative glycolipid-anchored surface protein, participates in conidiation and cell wall structure but not virulence

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2850-2861

  Sagaram, Uma Shankar ^a   Shaw, Brian D ^a   Shim, Won Bo ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLYPICAN 1; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CELL WALL; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FUNGAL CELL CULTURE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM VERTICILLIOIDES; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MAIZE; MYCELIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STAINING; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE;

CELL WALL; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUMONISINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUSARIUM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT DISEASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE; ZEA MAYS;

GIBBERELLA MONILIFORMIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 34948867276     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/007708-0     Document Type: Article

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