A key enzyme of the leloir pathway is involved in pathogenicity of leptosphaeria maculans toward oilseed rape

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 725-736

  Remy, E ^a   Meyer, M ^a   Blaise, F ^a   Simon, U K ^b   Kuhn, D ^c   Balesdent, M H ^a   Rouxel, T ^a  

^a INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; GALACTOSE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE 4 EPIMERASE;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CELL WALL; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYDROLYSIS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAPESEED; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; BRASSICA NAPUS; CELL WALL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GALACTOSE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UDPGLUCOSE 4-EPIMERASE;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BRASSICA NAPUS; FUNGI; LEPTOSPHAERIA MACULANS; PHAEOSPHAERIA NODORUM;

EID: 66449124708     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-22-6-0725     Document Type: Article

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