MVE1, encoding the velvet gene product homolog in Mycosphaerella graminicola, is associated with aerial mycelium formation, melanin biosynthesis, hyphal swelling, and light signaling

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 942-953

  Choi, Yoon E ^a   Goodwin, Stephen B ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR PLATES; CELLULAR PROCESS; GENE DELETION; GENE PRODUCTS; HOMOLOGOUS GENES; KEY REGULATORS; LIQUID CULTURE; MYCELIUM FORMATION; OSMOTIC STRESS; PATHOGENIC FUNGI; SECONDARY METABOLISM; SEPTORIA TRITICI BLOTCH; SIGNALING PATHWAYS; WHEAT PRODUCTION;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; FUNGI; GENE ENCODING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PIGMENTS; SILK;

SIGNALING;

FUNGAL PROTEIN; MELANIN;

AGAR; FUNGUS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MELANIN; METABOLISM; MUTATION; OSMOSIS; PHENOTYPE; WHEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCELIUM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WHEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; HYPHAE; LIGHT; MELANINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCELIUM; PLANT DISEASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRITICUM;

DOTHIDEOMYCETES; FUNGI; MYCOSPHAERELLA GRAMINICOLA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 79551488634     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01830-10     Document Type: Article

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