Quantitative variation in effector activity of ToxA isoforms from Stagonospora nodorum and Pyrenophora tritici-repentis

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 515-522

  Tan, Kar Chun ^a   Ferguson Hunt, Margo ^b   Rybak, Kasia ^b   Waters, Ormonde D C ^a   Stanley, Will A ^c   Bond, Charles S ^c   Stukenbrock, Eva H ^d   Friesen, Timothy L ^e   Faris, Justin D ^e   McDonald, Bruce A ^f   Oliver, Richard P ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^f ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; MYCOTOXIN; TOXA PROTEIN, PYRENOPHORA TRITICI REPENTIS; TOXA PROTEIN, PYRENOPHORA TRITICI-REPENTIS;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; VIRULENCE; WHEAT;

ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MYCOTOXINS; PLANT DISEASES; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; TRITICUM; VIRULENCE;

PHAEOSPHAERIA NODORUM; PYRENOPHORA TRITICI-REPENTIS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84858976117     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-10-11-0273     Document Type: Article

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