Sho1 and Msb2-related proteins regulate appressorium development in the smut fungus ustilago maydis

Plant Cell

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2085-2101

  Lanver, Daniel ^a   Mendoza Mendoza, Artemio ^a,b   Brachmann, Andreas ^a,c   Kahmann, Regine ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; USTILAGO;

FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MUTATION; SEQUENCE DELETION; USTILAGO; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 77955903973     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.109.073734     Document Type: Article

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