A role for topoisomerase i in Fusarium graminearum and F. culmorum pathogenesis and sporulation

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 566-577

  Baldwin, Thomas K ^a,b   Urban, Martin ^a   Brown, Neil ^a   Hammond Kosack, Kim E ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMPTOTHECIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; MYCOTOXIN;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIAL COUNT; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FUNGUS SPORE; FUSARIUM; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WHEAT;

CAMPTOTHECIN; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; FUSARIUM; GENE DELETION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTANT PROTEINS; MUTATION; MYCOTOXINS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPORES, FUNGAL; TRITICUM;

FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM CULMORUM; GIBBERELLA ZEAE; PALEA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 77950576961     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-23-5-0566     Document Type: Article

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