Endophytic life strategies decoded by genome and transcriptome analyses of the mutualistic root symbiont Piriformospora indica

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Zuccaro, Alga ^a   Lahrmann, Urs ^a   Güldener, Ulrich ^b   Langen, Gregor ^c   Pfiffi, Stefanie ^a   Biedenkopf, Dagmar ^c   Wong, Philip ^b   Samans, Birgit ^c   Grimm, Carolin ^a   Basiewicz, Magdalena ^c   Murat, Claude ^d   Martin, Francis ^d   Kogel, Karl Heinz ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; LECTIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BARLEY; BASIDIOMYCETES; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; ENDOPHYTE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME ANALYSIS; LIFESTYLE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PIRIFORMOSPORA INDICA; SYMBIOSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENOME; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HORDEUM; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSPOSON;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; HORDEUM; PIRIFORMOSPORA INDICA; SEBACINALES;

BASE SEQUENCE; BASIDIOMYCOTA; CELL DEATH; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENDOPHYTES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME, FUNGAL; HORDEUM; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLANT ROOTS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 80055091319     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002290     Document Type: Article

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