Cladosporium fulvum circumvents the second functional resistance gene homologue at the Cf-4 locus (Hcr9-4E) by secretion of a stable avr4E isoform

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 533-545

  Westerink, Nienke ^a,b   Brandwagt, Bas F ^a   De Wit, Pierre J G M ^a   Joosten, Matthieu H A J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVR4E PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; CYSTEINE RICH PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; ISOPROTEIN; LEUCINE; METHIONINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PHENYLALANINE; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; APOPLAST; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CLADOSPORIUM; CLADOSPORIUM FULVUM; CULTIVAR; DISEASE RESISTANCE; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC LINE MMCF4; GENETIC TRAIT; HCR9 4D GENE; HCR9 4E GENE; MONEYMAKER CULTIVAR; NONHUMAN; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CLADOSPORIUM; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN ISOFORMS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLADOSPORIUM; CLADOSPORIUM FULVUM; FUNGI; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 6344275547     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04288.x     Document Type: Article

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