Regulators of G-protein signalling in Fusarium verticillioides mediate differential host-pathogen responses on nonviable versus viable maize kernels

Molecular Plant Pathology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 479-491

  Mukherjee, Mala ^a   Kim, Jung Eun ^a   Park, Yong Soon ^a   Kolomiets, Michael V ^a   Shim, Won Bo ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; ZEA MAYS;

GIBBERELLA MONILIFORMIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79955528111     PISSN: 14646722     EISSN: 13643703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2010.00686.x     Document Type: Article

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