Two novel transcriptional regulators are essential for infection-related morphogenesis and pathogenicity of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Yan, Xia ^a   Li, Ya ^a   Yue, Xiaofeng ^a   Wang, Congcong ^a   Que, Yawei ^a   Kong, Dandan ^a   Ma, Zhonghua ^a   Talbot, Nicholas J ^b   Wang, Zhengyi ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APSES PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE CATALYTIC SUBUNIT; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MELANIN; MOCDTF1 PROTEIN; MOSOM1 PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL SPORE; BARLEY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SURFACE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOID SPORE; DOWN REGULATION; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; HAPLOID SPORE; HOMEOSTASIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MAGNAPORTHE ORYZAE; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS; MYCELIUM; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIGMENTATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RICE; SEXUAL SPORE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPOROGENESIS; UPREGULATION; CELL WALL; CYTOLOGY; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; MAGNAPORTHE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE;

MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; MAGNAPORTHE ORYZAE;

CELL WALL; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; MAGNAPORTHE; MUTATION; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT DISEASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84855280790     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002385     Document Type: Article

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