Use of the plant defense protein osmotin to identify fusarium oxysporum genes that control cell wall properties

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 558-568

  Lee, Hyeseung ^a,c   Damsz, Barbara ^a   Woloshuk, Charles P ^a   Bressan, Ray A ^a,b   Narasimhan, Meena L ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLUCAN; OSMOTIN PROTEIN, NICOTIANA TABACUM; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; FUNGAL GENE; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TOBACCO;

CELL WALL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GLUCANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TOBACCO;

FUNGI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; FUSARIUM SP.; NICOTIANA TABACUM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 77950545472     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00316-09     Document Type: Article

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