The Magnaporthe grisea class VII chitin synthase is required for normal appressorial development and function

Molecular Plant Pathology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 81-94

  Odenbach, Dominik ^a   Thines, Eckhard ^a   Anke, Heidrun ^a   Foster, Andrew J ^a  

^a IBWF eV   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITIN SYNTHASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; MAGNAPORTHE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHITIN SYNTHASE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE DELETION; GENES, FUNGAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MAGNAPORTHE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA;

EID: 58149229496     PISSN: 14646722     EISSN: 13643703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2008.00515.x     Document Type: Article

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