Inactivation of the lipoxygenase ZmLOX3 increases susceptibility of maize to Aspergillus spp.

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 222-231

  Gao, Xiquan ^a   Brodhagen, Marion ^b,d   Isakeit, Tom ^a   Brown, Sigal Horowitz ^b   Göbel, Cornelia ^c   Betran, Javier ^a,e   Feussner, Ivo ^c   Keller, Nancy P ^b   Kolomiets, Michael V ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Syngenta Seeds SAS   (France)

Author keywords

9S HPODE; Fusarium verticillioides

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; CYCLOPENTANE DERIVATIVE; FATTY ACID; JASMONIC ACID; LIPOXYGENASE; OXYLIPIN; STERIGMATOCYSTIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BIOSYNTHESIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYMOLOGY; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIPID METABOLISM; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE;

AFLATOXINS; ASPERGILLUS; CYCLOPENTANES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FATTY ACIDS; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPOXYGENASE; MUTATION; OXYLIPINS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; SPORES, FUNGAL; STERIGMATOCYSTIN; ZEA MAYS;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; COCHLIOBOLUS; COLLETOTRICHUM; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; EXSEROHILUM; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; GIBBERELLA MONILIFORMIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 59749087943     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-22-2-0222     Document Type: Article

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