Vegetative hyphal fusion is not essential for plant infection by fusarium oxysporum

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 162-171

  Prados Rosales, Rafael C ^a   Di Pietro, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT ROOT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOMATO; VIRULENCE;

CELL ADHESION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HYPHAE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MUTATION; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT ROOTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE;

EID: 40649089951     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00258-07     Document Type: Article

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