Under pressure: Investigating the biology of plant infection by Magnaporthe oryzae

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 185-195

  Wilson, Richard A ^a   Talbot, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN MST11; PROTEIN MST7; PROTEIN PMK1; PROTEIN TPS1; PROTEIN TPS2; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE OXIDASE 1; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE OXIDASE 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ENZYME ACTIVATION; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; INFECTION CONTROL; MAGNAPORTHE; MAGNAPORTHE ORYZAE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; RICE BLAST; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CYCLIC AMP; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MAGNAPORTHE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT DISEASES;

FUNGI; MAGNAPORTHE ORYZAE;

EID: 60749094240     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2032     Document Type: Review

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