Disruption of the Bcchs3a chitin synthase gene in botrytis cinerea is responsible for altered adhesion and overstimulation of host plant immunity

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1324-1334

  Arbelet, Delphine ^a,b,c   Malfatti, Pierrette ^a,b,c   Simond Côte, Elizabeth ^a,b,c   Fontaine, Thierry ^d   Desquilbet, Loïc ^c   Expert, Dominique ^a,b,c,e   Kunz, Caroline ^a,b,c   Soulié, Marie Christine ^a,b,c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Écosystèmes Cultivés et Naturels   (France)

^c AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMALEXIN; CHITIN SYNTHASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BOTRYTIS; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; VIRULENCE;

ARABIDOPSIS; BOTRYTIS; CHITIN SYNTHASE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; INDOLES; MUTATION; PLANT DISEASES; THIAZOLES; VIRULENCE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; FUNGI;

EID: 77956721330     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-02-10-0046     Document Type: Article

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