The cAMP-dependent signaling pathway and its role in conidial germination, growth, and virulence of the gray mold Botrytis cinerea

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1443-1459

  Schumacher, Julia ^a   Kokkelink, Leonie ^a   Huesmann, Christina ^a   Jimenez Teja, Daniel ^b   Collado, Isidro G ^b   Barakat, Radwan ^c   Tudzynski, Paul ^a   Tudzynski, Bettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

^c HEBRON UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BOTRYTIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE;

BOTRYTIS; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MUTATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE;

BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; BOTRYTIS;

EID: 55549129624     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-21-11-1443     Document Type: Article

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