Botrytis cinerea virulence factors: New insights into a necrotrophic and polyphageous pathogen

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 277, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-10

  Choquer, Mathias ^a   Fournier, Elisabeth ^a   Kunz, Caroline ^b   Levis, Caroline ^a   Pradier, Jean Marc ^a   Simon, Adeline ^a   Viaud, Muriel ^a  

^a INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Botrytis; Gray mold; Host adaptation; Signal transduction; Toxins

Indexed keywords

REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TOXIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ASCOMYCETES; BOTRYTIS CINEREA; CELL KILLING; ENZYME DEGRADATION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HOST CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY BURST; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BOTRYTIS; FABACEAE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MYCOTOXINS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; RESPIRATORY BURST; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; BOTRYTIS; FUNGI;

EID: 35748986118     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00930.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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