Mandipropamid targets the cellulose synthase-like PiCesA3 to inhibit cell wall biosynthesis in the oomycete plant pathogen, Phytophthora infestans

Molecular Plant Pathology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 227-243

  Blum, Mathias ^a   Boehler, Martine ^a   Randall, Eva ^b   Young, Vanessa ^b   Csukai, Michael ^c   Kraus, Sabrina ^a   Moulin, Florence ^a   Scalliet, Gabriel ^a   Avrova, Anna O ^b   Whisson, Stephen C ^b   Fonne Pfister, Raymonde ^a  

^a SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG   (Switzerland)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c JEALOTT S HILL INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL PROTEIN; AMIDE; CARBOXYLIC ACID; CELLULOSE; CELLULOSE SYNTHASE; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; MANDIPROPAMID; MESYLIC ACID ETHYL ESTER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY; CROSS BREEDING; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; PLANT; DRUG EFFECTS;

ALGAL PROTEINS; AMIDES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CELL WALL; CELLULOSE; CROSSES, GENETIC; ETHYL METHANESULFONATE; GENE DOSAGE; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; PLANTS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

OOMYCETES; PERONOSPORACEAE; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; PLASMOPARA VITICOLA; VITACEAE;

EID: 75149148220     PISSN: 14646722     EISSN: 13643703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2009.00604.x     Document Type: Article

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