Analyses of expressed sequence tags from the maize foliar pathogen Cercospora zeae-maydis identify novel genes expressed during vegetative, infectious, and reproductive growth

BMC Genomics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Bluhm, Burton H ^a   Dhillon, Braham ^b   Lindquist, Erika A ^c   Kema, Gert H J ^d   Goodwin, Stephen B ^b   Dunkle, Larry D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FUNGAL RNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CERCOSPORA ZEAE MAYDIS; DNA LIBRARY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; FUNGAL PLANT DISEASE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC DATABASE; MAIZE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT REPRODUCTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CERCOSPORA; CERCOSPORA ZEAE-MAYDIS; FUNGI; ZEA MAYS;

ASCOMYCOTA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; PLANT DISEASES; RNA, FUNGAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORES, FUNGAL; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 57449098172     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-9-523     Document Type: Article

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