Response to environmental stresses, cell-wall integrity, and virulence are orchestrated through the calcineurin pathway in ustilago hordei

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 219-232

  Cervantes Chávez, José Antonio ^a   Ali, Shawkat ^b   Bakkeren, Guus ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL WALL; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; USTILAGO; VIRULENCE;

CALCINEURIN; CELL WALL; ENVIRONMENT; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MUTATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; USTILAGO; VIRULENCE;

EUKARYOTA; HORDEUM; USTILAGO HORDEI;

EID: 78651344488     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-09-10-0202     Document Type: Article

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