The fungal pathogen Cochliobolus heterostrophus responds to maize phenolics: Novel small molecule signals in a plant-fungal interaction

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1421-1434

  Shanmugam, Veerubommu ^a,d   Ronen, Mordechai ^a   Shalaby, Samer ^a   Larkov, Olga ^a   Rachamim, Yocheved ^b   Hadar, Ruthi ^a   Rose, Mark S ^c   Carmeli, Shmuel ^b   Horwitz, Benjamin A ^a   Lev, Sophie ^a,e  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c SYNGENTA BIOTECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

^d CSIR INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAFFEIC ACID; CATECHOL DIOXYGENASE; COUMARIC ACID; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CHAP1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CCHD1 GENE; COCHLIOBOLUS HETEROSTROPHUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENOME; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE;

ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PHENOLS; PLANT DISEASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZEA MAYS;

COCHLIOBOLUS HETEROSTROPHUS; EUKARYOTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 78249236860     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2010.01479.x     Document Type: Article

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