Erl1, a novel era-like GTPase from magnaporthe oryzae, is required for full root virulence and is conserved in the mutualistic symbiont glomus intraradices

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 67-81

  Heupel, Stephanie ^a   Roser, Birgit ^a   Kuhn, Hannah ^a   Lebrun, Marc Henri ^b   Villalba, Francois ^c   Requena, Natalia ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c BAYER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GLOMEROMYCOTA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAGNAPORTHE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCORRHIZA; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT ROOT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYMBIOSIS; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL NUCLEUS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GLOMEROMYCOTA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; HYPHAE; MAGNAPORTHE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCORRHIZAE; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT ROOTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYMBIOSIS; VIRULENCE;

ARBUSCULAR; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; GLOMUS; GLOMUS INTRARADICES; MAGNAPORTHE; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; MAGNAPORTHE ORYZAE;

EID: 73949122274     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-23-1-0067     Document Type: Article

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