A novel transcriptional factor important for pathogenesis and ascosporogenesis in Fusarium graminearum

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 118-128

  Wang, Yang ^a,b   Liu, Wende ^b   Hou, Zhanming ^b   Wang, Chenfang ^a   Zhou, Xiaoying ^b   Jonkers, Wilfried ^c   Ding, Shengli ^b   Kistler, H Corby ^c   Xu, Jin Rong ^a,b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BARLEY; FERTILIZATION; FUNGUS SPORE; FUSARIUM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; VIRULENCE; WHEAT;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FERTILIZATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUSARIUM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HORDEUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLANT DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; SPORES, FUNGAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRITICUM; VIRULENCE;

ASCOMYCOTA; FUSARIUM; GIBBERELLA ZEAE; HORDEUM; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; MAGNAPORTHE ORYZAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 78650638636     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-06-10-0129     Document Type: Article

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