l-Arginine is essential for conidiation in the filamentous fungus Coniothyrium minitans

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1368-1379

  Gong, Xiaoyan ^a   Fu, Yanping ^a   Jiang, Daohong ^a   Li, Guoqing ^a   Yi, Xianhong ^a   Peng, Youliang ^b  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbamoyl phosphate synthase; Conidiation; Coniothyrium minitans; Filamentous fungi; l Arginine; Nitric oxide; NO signal transduction pathway; Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CITRULLINE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM;

ARTICLE; CONIOTHYRIUM MINITANS; FILAMENTOUS ALGA; FUNGUS; GENE INSERTION; INOCULATION; LIQUID CULTURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA VECTOR; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ARGININE; ASCOMYCOTA; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CARBON-NITROGEN LIGASES WITH GLUTAMINE AS AMIDE-N-DONOR; CITRULLINE; DNA, BACTERIAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITROPRUSSIDE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPORES, FUNGAL;

CONIOTHYRIUM MINITANS; FUNGI; FUNGI IMPERFECTI; SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM;

EID: 35748978827     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2007.07.007     Document Type: Article

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