ACTTS3 encoding a polyketide synthase is essential for the biosynthesis of ACT-Toxin and pathogenicity in the tangerine pathotype of alternaria alternata

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 406-414

  Miyamoto, Y ^a   Masunaka, A ^a,e   Tsuge, T ^b   Yamamoto, M ^c   Ohtani, K ^a   Fukumoto, T ^a   Gomi, K ^a   Peever, T L ^d   Tada, Y ^a   Ichimura, K ^a   Akimitsu, K ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR HOKKAIDO REGION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYCOTOXIN; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE;

ALTERNARIA; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CITRUS FRUIT; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE;

ALTERNARIA; CITRUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MYCOTOXINS; PLANT DISEASES; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES;

ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; CITRUS RETICULATA; FUNGI; PUNCTUM BLANDIANUM;

EID: 77949285013     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-23-4-0406     Document Type: Article

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