Functional characterization of a plant-like sucrose transporter from the beneficial fungus Trichoderma virens. Regulation of the symbiotic association with plants by sucrose metabolism inside the fungal cells

New Phytologist

Volumn 189, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 777-789

  Vargas, Walter A ^a,b   Crutcher, Frankie K ^a   Kenerley, Charles M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fungi; Sucrose uptake; Sucrose H+ symporters; Symbiotic association; Trichoderma virens

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; COTRANSPORTER; FUNGAL PROTEIN; SUCROSE; SUCROSE TRANSPORT PROTEIN, PLANT; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

BIOINFORMATICS; CELL ORGANELLE; COLONIZATION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHIZOSPHERE; SUCROSE; SYMBIOSIS;

ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; TRICHODERMA;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MYCORRHIZAE; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUCROSE; SYMBIOSIS; SYMPORTERS; TRICHODERMA; ZEA MAYS;

FUNGI; HYPOCREA VIRENS; TRICHODERMA;

EID: 78651305614     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03517.x     Document Type: Article

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