Living the sweet life: How does a plant pathogenic fungus acquire sugar from plants?

PLoS Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Talbot, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; HEXOSE; ORGANIC CARBON; SUCROSE; SUGAR; CARRIER PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; SUCROSE TRANSPORT PROTEIN, PLANT; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

APOPLAST; ARTICLE; CARBON SOURCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CROP PRODUCTION; DEGRADATION KINETICS; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FUNGAL PLANT DISEASE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; GLUCOSE UTILIZATION; HEXOSE TRANSPORT; INFECTION CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT NUTRITION; SUGAR TRANSPORT; SYMBIOSIS; TELIOSPORE; USTILAGO MAYDIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; USTILAGO; VIRULENCE;

FUNGI;

FUNGAL PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SUCROSE; USTILAGO; VIRULENCE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77649099004     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000308     Document Type: Article

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