Overlapping and distinct functions of two Trichoderma virens MAP kinases in cell-wall integrity, antagonistic properties and repression of conidiation

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 398, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 765-770

  Kumar, Ashish ^b   Scher, Keren ^a   Mukherjee, Mala ^a   Pardovitz Kedmi, Ella ^a   Sible, George V ^c   Singh, Uma S ^b   Kale, Sharad P ^c   Mukherjee, Prasun K ^c   Horwitz, Benjamin A ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b G B PANT UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Biocontrol; Cell wall integrity; Fungal; MAP kinase; MAPK; Signaling; Trichoderma

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; AUTOLYSIS; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE INACTIVATION; HYPHOMYCETES; HYPOCREA VIRENS; MUTANT; MYCELIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PYTHIUM; RHIZOCTONIA SOLANI; SCLEROTIUM ROLFSII; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; YEAST CELL;

CELL WALL; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MUTATION; SPORES, FUNGAL; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRICHODERMA;

ATHELIA ROLFSII; FUNGI; HYPOCREA VIRENS; PYTHIUM; THANATEPHORUS CUCUMERIS; TRICHODERMA;

EID: 77955416450     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2010.07.020     Document Type: Article

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